Tomorrow, Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Department of Finance, the Department of Housing Preservation Department (HPD), and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), will hold a tax lien sale information session at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church from 6:00-8:30 p.m. During the information session,...
Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, New York State Senator Kevin S. Parker, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte, and District Leader Josue Pierre invite the community a special immigration forum. State of Immigration State of Emergency: What changes might occur under President Trump & How...
The Participatory Budgeting process is coming to our neighborhood! Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. It’s grassroots democracy at its best. It helps make budget...
Do you know a senior citizen willing to contribute some time and energy to helping out in our community? Council Member Jumaane Williams is seeking senior volunteers. For more information, contact Council Member Williams’ Chief of Staff Rance Hunt at...
UPDATE: Council Member Jumaane Williams will be collecting donated supplies until Sept. 15 — notebooks, pencils, markers, printing paper, glue, hand sanitizer and crayons will all be gratefully accepted. Bring donated goods to Council Member Williams’ office at 4517 Avenue D, Brooklyn,...
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced the results of participatory budgeting (PB) in Brooklyn this week. Here in the Midwood area, some 500,000 has been allocated for street repairs on Avenue J, Avenue K,...
Participatory Budgeting NYC (PBNYC) is here! Voters may select as many as five PBNYC project proposals in their district ballot. Each participating Council Member guarantees funding for the three proposals that tally the most votes....
Intro 673-A, sponsored by Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, was signed into law by Mayor Bill Di Blasio last week. The legislation requires all city websites to include a feature to translate text into languages other than English, whenever...