Community Board #13 Newsletter
Changing of the Guards

Community Board #13 would like to announce our new executive officers:
Lucy Acevedo - Chairperson
Jeffrey Sanoff - 1st Vice Chair
Zunera Ahmed - 2nd Vice Chair
Shimon Rinkovsky - Secretary
Dionne Brown - Treasurer

Michael Silverman - Parliamentarian
Thomas Hopkins - Sergeant at Arms

If you need to speak to the officers, please contact the office and we will get the message to them. We would also like to thank Joann Weiss for her dedication, service and long hours as Chairperson for the last four years.
Keep yourself updated with City Agency links:


The City has created the GetFoodNYC food delivery program to provide food for coronavirus (COVID-19)-vulnerable and food-insecure New Yorkers not currently served through existing food delivery programs. Sign up here or call 311.


Below are locations for meals and masks distribution sites:
 
 
MY NEW YORK CITY

A Poetry Workshop
Of Self & Memory
Through Your City
With Poet SM Gray

 
Parachute Literary Arts in partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library is offering MY NEW YORK CITY, a series of six free online creative writing workshops this summer! You may join for one or all of the workshops . Open to all experience levels!

 
Dates: Saturdays from July 11 - August 15
(7/11, 7/18, 7/25, 8/01, 8/08, 8/15)

Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm


Here are the registration links:

Registration is limited to 12 participants.
Once you register, you will receive a link to the event.
Note: You must register for each of the six sessions separately.


 
This series is offered with Closed Captioning and recommended for adults and teens.
 
Participants will be invited to share their writing by email to parachutefestival@gmail.com and to post on Parachute Literary Art’s Twitter or Facebook, with the hashtag #MyNewYorkCity.
Please follow us on twitter  @parachutearts  for updates and poetry.

The workshop will culminate in a digital and limited-edition print anthology of participants' works designed and printed by artist and printer,  Sarah Nicholls !

 
My New York City Course Description:

What does it mean to really "know" a neighborhood, city, or street? What do you know that others don't? Poetry and prose about NYC will be introduced for inspiration, exploring themes such as gentrification, neighborhoods and "vanishing" NYC. Writing prompts will be given to encourage drawing out hidden or lesser seen stories, and participants may go out into their neighborhoods to write about and get inspired by nearby locations. Participants’ new writings will be shared weekly with classmates and instructor for feedback.

For more information or press/media inquiries, please email:  Parachutefestival@gmail.com

 
Stay safe, fight the power, wear a mask, and be kind to one another.
 
We can't wait to see your New York City!

xo Parachute
 
 

 

 SM Gray is a poet/filmmaker/photographer and author of seven poetry collections, most recently, Words Are What You Get/You Do It For Real (above ground press, 2019). A recent “poem-film”, 63 Acres: Dear Danny Lyon, about the disappeared lower-Manhattan "63 acres" per legendary photographer Lyon that were demolished with no public outcry in the 1960s, screened internationally, including at Antimatter, Engauge, Cadence, and Mono No Aware film festivals.



Parachute Literary Arts is a community arts non-profit in Coney Island founded by poet Amanda Deutch in 2009 and incorporated in 2018. We celebrate and honor Coney Island’s literary history and presence through site-specific events, festivals, writing workshops, and poetry libraries. We believe in the arts as a catalyst for empowerment and change. Visit our website at:  www.ParachuteArts.org . Follow us on twitter  @ParachuteArts
CITY UPDATE ON COVID-19
 
The NYC Department of Sanitation announced that Alternate Side of Street Parking regulations will be suspended on Monday, July 27.

There will no longer be twice-weekly street cleanings. Going forward, streets that have multiple ASP days will be cleaned on the day that is later in the week, through Labor Day. For example, a street with ASP regulations posted on Tuesday and Friday will now be cleaned on Friday only. Daily sweeping regulations in metered areas will not change, and DSNY will continue cleaning streets with posted No Standing, No Stopping and No Parking regulations as needed.
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Brooklyn, NY 11224
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