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By Craig Hubert
for Brooklyn Paper
A stretch of Lincoln Place
between Nostrand and New
York avenues in Crown
Heights took first prize in
the 25th annual Greenest
Block in Brooklyn contest
this year.
The event, hosted by the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, is
an attempt to bring communities
together to make Brooklyn
a cleaner, greener place. It represents
“a quarter-century of
city blocks coming together,”
Botanic Garden President and
CEO Scot Medbury said at an
Aug. 8 press conference.
This year, 160 blocks entered
the competition. But
Lincoln Place, Medbury said,
was “a force to be reckoned
with.”
Many of the people who
gathered — including local
residents and people from
other nominated blocks who
came out to show their support
— remarked on the variety
of plants up and down
the block, including tropical
plants. Medbury and others
also commented on the tree
pit signs, which are featured
on all of the 27 trees on the
block.
Much of the horticultural
work on the block was spearheaded
by a group of residents
called P.L.A.N.T.S, which
stands for Preserving Lin-
coln’s Abundant and Natural
Treasures. Althea Joseph,
one of the group’s members,
talked about how the award
meant so much to them this
year because of the struggles
they faced.
The weather, she said, was
a frenemy.
“She became an enemy
the weekend before the finals
when it was 100 degrees and
we were peddling water all
over the place,” Joseph said.
“But she became our friend
last night because we didn’t
have the water” due to storms
that lasted most of the day
across Brooklyn.
Perri Edwards, who said
she has lived on Lincoln Place
for more than 30 years, said
this is the greenest she has
ever seen it. Her mother used
to enter the block in the contest,
she said, so they have
been aiming to win for a
long time.
“Whenever we would hear
who the winner was, we would
race to the block and walk up
and down the street, talk to
Photo by Susan De Vries
people, make new friends,”
Edwards said. “I would ask
them, ‘How did you do it?’
That’s the question I would
ask. Now, people will come
to us and ask, ‘How did you
do it?’”
The block was a runner-up
for the residential block award
last year, when a stretch of
Lefferts Avenue took home
the prize.
Runner-ups this year included
a tie for second place
between the 300 East 25th
Street Block Association (East
25th Street between Clarendon
Road and Avenue D in
Flatbush) and the Stuyvesant
Avenue Block Association
(Stuyvesant Avenue between
Bainbridge and Chauncey
Streets in Bed Stuy).
The 400 Bainbridge Street
Block Association (Bainbridge
between Howard and Saratoga
Avenues in Bed Stuy) took
home third place, while the
East 26th Street Block Association
(East 26th Street between
Avenue D and Clarendon
Road in East Flatbush)
took finished fourth.
Montague Street BID
(Montague between Henry
and Hicks in Brooklyn
Heights) received the top prize
in the Commercial category,
while Pro 1 Tire, located at
781 4th Ave. in Sunset Park,
was awarded the Greenest
Storefront.
The Nehemiah Ten Community
Garden, located on
Barbey Street between Blake
and Dumont Avenues in East
New York, won the Best Community
Garden Streetscape.
Tilder Block Association in
East Flatbush took home the
Best Street Tree Beds award,
while Hyacinth Johnson and
Hazel Carter, both residents
of East Flatbush, tied for the
Best Window Box prize.
This story first appeared
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of our sister publications.
Winners from multiple categories of the 23rd annual Greenest Block in
Brooklyn contest.
Local coffee shop owner
Theo Peck baked some
cookies for the protest.
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“We need this bus. We really
need this bus to travel,”
said Edna Grant. “You got
people on wheelchairs and
everything, they don’t need
to cut it.”
But a spokeswoman for the
agency said that transit honchos
will push forward with
the plan, claiming the cuts will
streamline the route, ensuring
buses remain on schedule, and
increasing occupancy bus-bybus
by 22 percent.
“The B54 received minimal
schedule changes of one
to three minutes to align more
closely with ridership and the
actual travel time on the route,
so buses run more on time –
a priority we’ve heard from
our ridership - and with fewer
empty seats,” said Amanda
Kwan, a spokeswoman for
the MTA.
The Authority plans to
take a deeper look at the entire
Kings County bus network
in the coming months, as
part of a borough-wide effort
to “modernize” bus routes,
Kwan said.
Meanwhile, Kwan promised
that city transit gurus will
keep an eye on the B54 to ensure
its service cuts render
the promised results.
“We welcome customer
feedback as we approach
our planned redesign of the
entire Brooklyn bus network
in the coming months when
we will re-examine the route
network for the first time in
decades,” she said.
Photo by Kevin Duggan
Schneps gives back
Partners with Citymeals to help homebound
By Max Parrott
for Brooklyn Paper
Employees from Schneps
Media’s Bayside, Brooklyn,
Bronx and Westchester offices
joined forces on Friday,
Aug. 2, to pack meals for the
Citymeals on Wheels program
at the Joan & Bob Tisch
Emergency Meal Distribution
Center in the Bronx.
During one morning of
work, the staff worked together
to pack 2,200 boxes
for the food delivery service
nonprofit that will provide
more than 9,000 meals
to New York City homebound
elderly residents for
the winter.
“Schneps Media’s goal is
to be as grassroots an organization
as possible — and
we started with this corporate
volunteering initiative
to fulfill that goal,” said Josh
Schneps, CEO of Schneps
Media. “We are fortunate to
Silvio Pacifico
do that every day through
our editorial coverage as
well as helping businesses
grow through our marketing
channels.”
The teams lined up in assembly
line fashion to pack
Emergency Food Packages,
6-pound, four-meal boxes of
shelf-stable food delivered
directly to clients. These
packages are used in times
of emergency when the program
is unable to get meals
to clients.
All of Citymeal’s homebound
meal recipients receive
a box.
“We were really happy to
support Citymeals, who has
a great mission and allowed
our entire team to pitch in and
see firsthand the impact they
will have on thousands of
people,” Schneps said.
Citymeals opened the
Hunts Point distribution center
in October in order to expand
its operations providing
weekend, and emergency
meals throughout the five
boroughs. The warehouse
can accommodate up to 250
volunteers at once.
Schneps Media employees
joined together on
Aug. 2, to pack meals
for the Citymeals on
Wheels program.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
A Crown Heights lawmaker
announced a $200,000
cash infusion for youth organizations
dedicated to
combating gun violence in
neighborhoods throughout
the borough on Friday.
State Sen. Zellnor Myrie
channeled the funds toward
religious, anti-crime, youth,
and educational groups following
shootings in Brownsville
and Crown Heights,
and claimed it’s high time
the state’s top executive followed
suit.
“Today, we are proud to
invest in communities that
bring peace and hope to our
community and to prevent
further tragedy, we demand
that the governor’s office
does the same,” said Myrie,
speaking to press outside
his Nostrand Avenue
district office.
The funding will be split
between six organizations
throughout Brownsville,
East Flatbush, and Crown
Heights, which include:
• $50,000 to 67th Clergy
Council, also known as “the
God Squad” (East Flatbush,
Remsen Village)
• $50,000 to Save Our
Streets (Crown Heights)
• $25,000 to Brownsville
Community Justice Center
• $25,000 to Brownsville
In Violence Out
• $25,000 to Elite Learners
(Brownsville)
• $25,000 to Brownsville
Think Tank Matters
Myrie sourced the funding
from a state program to curtail
gun violence, called Snug
— “guns” spelled backwards
— which works to connect
high-risk youths with services,
programs, and other
community initiatives, according
to the program’s
website .
State Sen. Zellnor Myrie announced a $200,000 state
funding package last Friday for local community
groups to combat gun violence.
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