On Thursday, January 4th, at 6:00 p.m., the Center for Architecture – home to the New York City chapter of the American Institute of Architects – will screen “Brooklyn Matters,” a documentary by Brooklyn filmmaker, urban planner and historian Isabel Hill. The timely and urgent film exposes how powerful interests are circumventing community participation and skirting legal protections to push the “Atlantic Yards” project forward at any cost.

Ms. Hill, a Brooklyn resident, and former planner in New York City’s Department of City Planning, directed the award-winning “Made in Brooklyn,” a documentary about the borough’s manufacturing industry.

From the American Institute of Architects website:

Brooklyn is distinctly different and yet such an important part of New York City. The names itself brings to mind tree-lined streets, finely carved rowhouses and beautiful churches and diverse communities, rich in cultural life and ethnic heritage. On the upswing, vibrant and rebuilding itself, Brooklyn faces a new challenge—an uncommon development, designed by world famous architect Frank Gehry, that threatens to redirect Brooklyn’s future and reshape its identity.

UPDATE: This event is being postponed

Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats (CBID) Introduces the Candidates for Brooklyn's Council District 40 special election (probably scheduled for February).

Yvette Clarke was elected to Congress on November 7 from the 11th Congressional District, to succeed Major Owens. She will vacate her seat on the City Council from Council District 40. CBID will hold a forum and endorsement vote for the special election to fill her seat on the Council. New members must have joined the Club by November 20 to vote at this meeting. The meeting will be held at 7:30 PM on Thursday, January 4, 2007 (7 days from today). at the Park Slope United Methodist Church, 6th Ave. & 8th Street in the basement (enter through the garden gate on 6th Ave).

The People for the American Way are hosting a townhall event tonight at their NE Regional Headquarters at:

149 5th Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10010

"The pendulum of power swung in the U.S. Congress. Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo were elected by wide margins. Is the time for progressive change finally here?

Come find out what’s on PFAW’s agenda for 2007 and find out how you can get more involved at our Town Hall Meeting at 6pm, on Tuesday, January 9.

People For the American Way staff will discuss our priorities for the new year and our plan to ensure that newly elected officials keep to their word and enact the progressive change they’ve promised—we'll need your help!

A reception will follow the discussion at 8:00 pm. Light food and refreshments will be served. Space is limited so if you haven’t already please RSVP to Andrew Meade at 212-420-0440 x20 or ameade@pfaw.org."

I'll be there, hope anyone that is available will check it out too!

Given my recent near fame on discussing Somalia, it is appropriate for me to bring this event to your attention:

Somalia: Is a regional war inevitable?

Said Samatar, Professor of African History,Rutgers University

In the last days of December, Ethiopian fighter jets bombed Somalia's Mogadishu airport - a move said to be in defense of Somalia's Federal Transitional Government based in Baidoa. Thousands were reported dead as the Ethiopians routed the Union of Islamic Courts,

in a move that had full U.S. support. Martial law has been declared and Ethiopia has announced its intention to remain in the country for at least several weeks.

Experts on the region fear that Somalia conflagration could set off a fierce proxy war, fueled by the rival interests of 10 other countries, including Eritrea, Kenya, and Djibouti.

Salim Lone, former spokesman for the UN mission in Iraq in 2003, recently warned: "If this war continues, it will affect the whole region and also do serious harm to US interests and threaten Kenya, the only island of stability in this corner of Africa."

You're invited to join the New York Civil Liberties Union on January 16, 2007, at NYU Law School for a Town Hall meeting to learn how you can take action to stop unconstitutional NSA spying and protect your rights to privacy and freedom of speech.

DATE: Tuesday, January 16, 2007

TIME: 7:00pm

LOCATION: NYU Lipton Hall (located in D'Agostino Hall)

110 West 3rd Street

New York City

No RSVP is required.

Don't miss this opportunity to share your thoughts on government spying with experts on both sides of the debate, including:

- Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chair, Constitution Subcommittee, U.S. House of Representatives;

- Ann Beeson, lead attorney, ACLU v. NSA, and ACLU Associate Legal Director;

- Andrew McCarthy, former supervisor of the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City, and lead prosecutor of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman; and

- Timothy Bakken, Professor of Law, United States Military Academy at West Point.

For more information and a full list of panelists, go here.

Use this link for directions to NYU School of Law Campus.

Use this link for a map to Lipton Hall.

For more information on this event, contact arosmarin@nyclu.org or call 212-607-3358.

This comes from Democracy for America and there are events all over the nation:

What part of "NO" is hard to understand? In the last election, America sent a clear message to President Bush to change our course in Iraq, but all he wants to do is step on the gas.

On Wednesday, President Bush will announce his new way forward and it will sound a lot like "stay the course." Twenty thousand more troops and another set of unrealistic benchmarks used as talking points is more of the same. Even America's new commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, says Bush's plan will take "two to three years" to put us on the right track.

This Thursday we must stand up and tell George Bush, "No!" Democracy for America is partnering with True Majority Action and several other progressive organizations to purge the surge. Will you help by setting up an event in your neighborhood?

http://www.AmericaSaysNo.org/DFA

Some of the events that have already been set up are candle-light vigils honoring the fallen. Others are honk and wave mini-rallies at busy intersections or public spaces. Either way, these events work great for as few as three people or as many as five hundred. What is most important is that these events happen on Thursday night just 24 hours after the President's speech. Congress and the media need to see a quick response and a clear message that America says no more troops for Iraq.

DISCUSSION:

Wednesday, January 17, 7 P.M.

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America

(Houghton Mifflin, 2005)

With author Nick Kotz; moderated by

Sam Freedman, Columbia University School of Journalism

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nick Kotz draws on a wealth of newly available sources – from President Johnson’s telephone conversations to FBI wiretap logs – to provide the first definitive account of the relationship between these two great leaders.

Celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Opposites in almost every way, suspicious of each other at first, President Johnson and Dr. King were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Both men sensed an opportunity and began a delicate dance of accommodation that moved them and the entire nation toward the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

$5 all tickets, free for members

Museum of Jewish Heritage

36 Battery Place • Battery Park City • New York, NY 10280

General Museum Info call 1.646.437.4200• Ticket Info call 1.646.437.4202

I previously posted on a Manhattan screening of the documentary "Brooklyn Matters," prompting Michael Bouldin to comment on the obvious irony of the venue for the event. However, I know of two people who went and were greatly impressed both by the film and by the discussion afterwards.

The next chance to see this film is at the Municipal Arts Society. Here are the details:

Thursday, January 18, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Focusing on the planned Atlantic Yards development in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, this spirited documentary film reviews how the project gained approval, its potential impact on Brooklyn, and the politics surrounding one of the largest development proposals in the city’s history. The documentary — featuring candid interviews, strong opinions and lively characters — is an insightful and sometimes startling view of how land-use decisions are made. A discussion will follow.

Seating is limited and reservations are recommended. RSVP to rsvp@mas.org or 212-935-2075.

20th Annual International Symposium

Center for Study of Gene Structure & Function

Hunter College, City University of New York

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Room 714 Hunter West Building,

68th Street & Lexington Avenue, New York City

Morning Session 9:00am*

Paul Ewald

University of Kansas

"Gene/Environment Interaction and the Causes of Atherosclerosis."

Christina Gutierrez

Pasteur Institute, France

“Parallel Origin and Diversity of TB Agents and Humans”

Steve Mack

Roche

“Using the Human Major Histocompatibility Complex to

Study Disease, Natural Selection and Human Evolution”

Holly Wichman

University of Idaho

“Experimental Evolution in a Virus Model System”

Afternoon Session 1:00pm*

Stephen Bezruchka

University of Washington

“Targeting Childhood Development to Make the Nation Healthy Again.”

Arata Kochi

Director, World Health OrganizationÂ’s Global Malaria Program (WHO/GMP)

“Malaria control: why it has failed and how to fix it?

Public health approaches and international politics”

Stuart Levy

Tufts University

“The Ecology of Antibiotic Resistance”

Brooklyn Arts Exchange is having an interesting sounding forum on Sunday, January 21st. Sounds like a timely community event given recent rifts in our community:

I AM PARK SLOPE

Will diversity be part of our future?

January 21, 2007 6pm

admission: $5.00 suggested donation

— The BAX Platform is a hybrid conversation series combining the best of your front stoop and kitchen table with the unique perspective of the newsmakers - making sure all things are considered.

Featured Panelists: Chris Owens - Founder and Chairman of the Paul Robeson Independent Democrats (PRIDE), and an ardent advocate against the Atlantic Yards development; CB6 Chair Craig Hammerman; Brooklyn Pride's Doreen De Jesus; longtime Park Slope residents, mother and son Marianna Gaston & Javier Gaston Greenberg (Marianna helped found Brooklyn New School); Pauline Toole & Gene Russianoff - Park Slope Parents and (Gene) staff attorney for New York Public Interest Research Group; Dr. Susan Fox of Park Slope Parents; Emily Millay Haddad (recently featured in a New York Times story on Park Slope); and Nancy McDermott, a founding member of NY Salon in conversation with BAX Executive Director Marya Warshaw

De facto Democratic candidate Manny Innamorato, in the technically nonpartisan special election campaign to fill Andrew Lanza's usually empty Staten Island South shore/Mid-Island council seat (Lanza, Marchi's successor and Matt Titone's State Senate opponent had the worst attendance in the Council )against State Assemblyman and Vito protege Vincent Ignizio, holds a Manhattan fundraiser tomorrow Jan 24, 2007 at the Beekman Pub, 15 Beekman Street adjacent to City Hall from 5:30-7:30 pm.

Suggested Donations are $75, $125 and $150.

Council Members Christine Quinn, Mike McMahon and Vinnie Gentile are among the hosts..

For more information contact Laura Sword 718 556-3823 or Jason Ascher 917-750-4206 Main office (718)317-0206

mannyforcouncil.com

Wednesday, January 24, 7 P.M.

DISCUSSION

Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide

They met in 1990 during the first Intifada—one was an American Jew, the author, who served as a prison guard in the largest prison in Israel; the other, a prisoner named Rafiq, who was a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue that grew into a remarkable friendship—and now a remarkable book that confronts head-on the issues dividing the Middle East, but also shines a ray of hope on that dark, embattled region.

Jeffrey Goldberg is Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. He was for ten years a Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker and for The New York Times Magazine. A winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting, he is also a former columnist for The Jerusalem Post and the Forward.

Museum of Jewish Heritage

36 Battery Place • Battery Park City

General Museum Info call 1.646.437.4200• Ticket Info call 1.646.437.4202

Museum Hours Sunday-Tuesday, Thursday: 10am to 5:45pm Wednesday: 10am to 8pm • Friday and the eve of Jewish Holidays: 10am to 5pm

$10 adults, $5 students/seniors, free for members

The Upside of Down

* January 25, 2007

* 7:00 p.m.

* Kaufmann Theater, first floor

* $15 ($12 Members)

Author and conservationist Thomas Homer-Dixon suggests that the pressures we are putting on our planet are likely leading to an imminent breakdown in the economic, political, and ecological systems that sustain us. By examining the intertwined causes of these systemic crises—from growing energy shortages to yawning economic inequalities—his latest book, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization, shows what we can learn from them and how we can mitigate them.

The Atmospheric Sciences Division of Brookhaven Labs on Long Island, New York, presents a great sounding seminar:

Friday, January 26, 2007, 11:00 AM

Brookhaven National Labs

Bldg 815E Conference Room

William Floyd Parkway, County Road 46, 1 1/2 miles north of Exit 68 of the Long Island Expressway.

Stay the Course' or 'Cut and Run'? Strategic Considerations Regarding the Quantification of Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols

Dr. Tad Anderson

University of Washington

This Seminar is Open to the Public...all are welcome to attend. Please bring a photo ID with you for entrance onto the Brookhaven National Labs site.

Overview:

Since the second year of the Ford Administration when Junge outlined the problem, atmospheric scientists have been engaged in a mission to beat down the uncertainties in Aerosol Climate Forcing. The intervening years have seen exponential increases in the number of scientist attacking this problem, the power of their instrumental and computational weaponry, and, of course, the overall cost of the mission. Publications have also increased exponentially, and yet, five Presidents and four party switches later, any semblance of victory remains elusive. Even our weakest enemy (the "direct forcing" problem), though targeted in well-armed field campaigns, has managed to stage repeated comebacks via such unanticipated tactics as the insertion of absorbing aerosol above boundary layer clouds, where its effects may be great and yet are almost impossible to measure. Meanwhile, the hydra-headed monster known as "indirect forcing", while surrendering tiny slivers of territory, has only grown in overall strength and incomprehensibility. Our great nation stands this very day at a turning point - a moment of decision. Shall we battle on with our bottom-up techniques, as the mad-dogs of the Red Party advocate? Shall we abandon the field to top-down (or inverse) methods, wherein we merely pick the forcing value that allows a climate model to fit the temperature record, as called for by the cowards of the Blue Party? Should we listen to those queer Third Party voices, urging, for example, approaches based on monitoring the heat content of the ocean or the albedo of the entire planet? These are trying and confusing times, and yet the choice is upon us. My goal in this presentation and the discussion to follow is not to recommend any particular course of action, but to help equip us to choose wisely. Specific topics will include: What do recent, so-called "observation-based" estimates of direct forcing tell us about the state of the science? What do we know about the accuracy of AERONET retrievals of absorption optical depth and fine-mode fraction? How does the notion of an aerosol/cloud continuum affect our observational and modeling strategies? Even though they cannot vote today, non-U.S. citizens are encouraged to come and participate - we need all the help we can get!

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

The latest bruising Democratic Primary is the race to replace Yvetter Clarke for City Council District 40 in Brooklyn. There are about 500 candidates running and the rhetoric has already gone nasty. I have only met three of the candidates, Jesse Hamilton and Zenobia McNally (read about my impressions of them here) and Mohammed Razvi (read about my impressions of him here).

So, for those who want to hear all the candidates, there is a candidates forum coming up:

Candidate Forum for Council Dist. 40 (Flatbush, Crown Heights, Midwood) Jan 30th

DFNYC is joining with Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats ("CBID"), Stonewall Democratic Club and other groups for a candidate forum in Brooklyn. On February 20th, there will be a Special Election in Council District 40. The seat is vacant now because Yvette Clarke, who previously represented District 40 in the City Council, has been elected to Congress.

When: Tuesday, January 30, 7-9:30pm

Where: Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church, 424 East 19th Street at Ditmas Avenue.

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

Biodiversity Across Borders: Conservation Through Corridor Ecology

* January 31, 2007

* 7:00 p.m.

* IMAX Corridor / Kaufmann Theater

* $12 (Members $10)

* To purchase tickets, please phone 1-212-769-5200 (9 am-5 pm, M-F, Eastern Time).

The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) is a prominent example of how conservationists are working to protect wide-ranging species across large landscapes and international borders. Two scholars, Drs. Charles Chester and Jodi Hilty, will offer insights into the formation of Y2Y and the science of "corridor ecology" that supports it. The discussion will also feature other examples of transborder conservation, ranging from the biological effects of a border wall between the US and Mexico, to peace parks on the Korean peninsula, to large "transboundary protected areas" in southern Africa.

Charles Chester is the author of Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World, and teaches at Brandeis University and The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Jodi Hilty is a landscape ecologist and the Assistant Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's North America Program. She is lead author of the book, Corridor Ecology: The Science and Practice of Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation. This event is sponsored by the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

Please join the New York grassroots, the New York State Democratic Committee and the New York State Democratic Senate Campaign Committee for an evening in support of Craig Johnson. Ticket prices range from $50 to $8,500; Governor Eliot Spitzer and Lieutenant Governor David Paterson are expected to attend.

Prey NYC

February 1st, 2007, 6 PM to 9 PM

4 West 22nd Street

New York, NY 10011

To purchase tickets/make a donation, please click here.

If you can't make the physical event, fear not; it will be liveblogged here, on Daily Kos, and The Albany Project.

Help us elect a good, solid Democrat instead of an anti-choice extremist pledged to supporting Joe Bruno's tottering régime. Plus, you get to hang with the coolest guy in politics, Eliot Spitzer; we'll see you there.

De facto Democratic Staten Island City Council Special Election candidate Manny Innamorato has just qualified for matching funds. However he needs raise more money to win the seat that has been in the hands of do nothing Republicans for years.

Manny is holding a fundraiser on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at Jody's Club Forest, 372 Forest Avenue 7-9 PM.

$50 More appreciated.

For more information contact Laura Sword 718 556-3823 or Jason Ascher 917-750-4206 Main office (718)317-0206

mannyforcouncil.com

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus

Dear Candidates for the 40th Council District:

On Tuesday, February 13th there will be a candidate’s forum at The Church of the Evangel, 1950 Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The forum is being sponsored by Prospect Lefferts United for Services (PLUS) together with Lefferts Manor Association, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association, PLG Arts and the Ocean by the Park Block Association.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens is located entirely within the 40th Council District and is bounded by Empire Boulevard, New York Avenue, Parkside Avenue and Ocean Avenue. Each community group sponsoring this forum is active in the neighborhood and have large active memberships who will be attending.

This forum will be open to all candidates for the 40th Council District seat and we hope each candidate will be in attendance. We have not decided when the forum will start, but we will announce that information as soon as it is available.

Please RSVP to Mark Dicus, President of PLUS, by return email or by phone at 347-244-2763.

Sincerely,

Mark Dicus