The Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association will be meeting this evening, May 6, 8:00 p.m. at Public School 195, 131 Irwin Street in Manhattan Beach.
The meeting will feature speakers from Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes’ office, leading a seminar on identity theft prevention.
To learn more, call (917) 747-5863.
PS 195. Source: Google Maps
The Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association will be meeting this evening, April 8, 8:00 p.m. at Public School 195, 131 Irwin Street in Manhattan Beach.
Topics of discussion will include:
To learn more, call (917) 747-5863.
THE COMMUTE: According to Theresa Scavo, chairperson of Community Board 15, the MTA stated that it is now too late to request additional stops to the B44 Select Bus Service (SBS) because maps have already been printed. She made that announcement at this month’s Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association (MBNA) meeting. She also stated that the board is still fighting the reduction in available parking spaces. However, that is the least of the problems this route will cause.
If it is too late to add an SBS stop at Avenue R, a likely assumption would be that it is also too late to change the route as I recommended back in 2011. I suggested that the southern portion of the B44 SBS terminate off-route at the Sheepshead Bay station instead of at Knapp Street and Voorhies Avenue, using Avenue Z to get to the station supplementing B36 service.
Whether you agree with me or not is not really important now. What is important is that I received assurances from the MTA Project Director Ted Orosz at the last B44 SBS Workshop that he would investigate my suggestion and get back to me in three months. He also stated that if they agreed that it was feasible to do, and it was something the community wanted, they would change their plans. He never investigated it, nor got back to me as promised.
Students walking two extra blocks to Kingsborough Community College. Photo by Allan Rosen
THE COMMUTE: Yesterday I discussed service irregularities on the B1 and B49 last Thursday afternoon, a day when the temperature reached the mid-90s and passengers were trying to get home from the beach. Today we look at other service irregularities and measures that can be taken, which the MTA resists.
A crowd waiting 20 minutes for a bus on Falmouth Street at 5:09 p.m. Photo by Allan Rosen
THE COMMUTE: Regular readers of this column know that my favorite subject is bus service, especially in Brooklyn. I particularly like to focus on subjects that virtually no one else pays attention to such as service to the area’s beaches. I’ve written about this subject several times before. Having ridden the B49 since the 1960s to go to Manhattan Beach, and constantly witnessing service irregularities dating back to then, I first attempted to get the MTA to pay attention to this problem in 1982 when I was director of the Brooklyn Transit Service Sufficiency Study, since irregular or poor service not only affects beachgoers, but it disrupts service along the entire route for all passengers.
Source: davidsonscott15/Flickr
Manhattan Beach Community Group President Ira Zalcman published on the group’s website a screed against Courier-Life’s (Bay News) reporting of their latest meeting, which oversimplified a long, complicated division with the neighborhood’s private security force – Beachside Patrol – and threw fuel onto the supposed rivalry between the MBCG and the newer Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association. In it, Zalcman bashed the paper for misrepresenting or distorting facts, erroneous statements and sensationalism.
See what the MBCG thinks Bay News messed up, and what our take on the story is.
From the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association:
Community Security Forum
You are cordially invited to attend a very special and unprecedented event of our Brooklyn communities; a gathering of NYPD’s Finest will address our community for the purpose of advising of the security measures taking place in our local schools, religious institutions, and residential neighborhoods
****Tuesday March 16th 2010 – 8:00pm****
@
Ohel David & Shlomo Synagogue
710 Shore Blvd. (corner of Ocean Avenue)
Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn
A water pipe break on Hastings Street near Oriental Boulevard is spurring the NYC-DEP to turn off water to homes and buildings on several Manhattan Beach blocks this evening.
Girard Street, Hastings Street, and Irwin Street will not have water from approximately 4 p.m. to midnight. The DEP expects to finish repairs during the 8-hour shut off period.
P.S. 195, located on Irwin Street, will be closed after classes today. After-school activities are cancelled, as is the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association’s Town Hall meeting with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. The meeting is rescheduled for Monday, April 19.
UPDATE: This meeting has been postponed until April 19 due to a broken water pipe that has shut down the public school for the evening.
From the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association:
Town Hall Meeting
Please join us Monday March 1st 2010 @ 8:00pm in Public School 195
As we welcome the newly elected NYC Public Advocate – Mr. Bill de Blasio – to Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn.
The Public Advocate has graciously accepted our invitation to conduct a Town Hall Meeting with questions and answers regarding any concerns we have regarding NYC government and it policies and how it affects our neighborhood.
There are numerous concerns that have arisen over the last few months in: crime, public transportation, education, quality of life services, real estate taxes, homeowner insurance terminations, and much more.
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The Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association is kicking off 2010 with a civic meeting! Woohoo! Par-tay!
The agenda is expected to be light, mainly looking back at leftover business from 2009. There may also be discussion of the fate of the Beachside Patrol, which has not yet announced whether or not it will be disbanding.
When: Tonight @ 8 p.m.
Where: P.S. 195 – 145 Irwin Street
Contact: (917) 747-5863
