RSVP Today for a FGA Meeting You Don’t Want to Miss!

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RSVP Today for a FGA Meeting You Don’t Want to Miss!

New Year New Beginnings

It’s all happening in Fort Greene! The Fort Greene Association (FGA) will be addressing some of the neighborhood’s hot topics such as jobs, public safety, affordable housing, public art, elder care, community programming and more. RSVP today via our Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=187205307986174 to attend Monday, February 28th at 7 PM the FGA’s 1st Neighborhood Mixer and Meeting for the year taking place at the town hall of Fort Greene - Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street. We are bringing updates from our neighborhood partners to inform you of what to look for in Fort Greene for 2011. The evening’s agenda invites:

Deputy Inspector Anthony Tasso, 88th Precinct

•Robbery reduction initiative

Andrew H. Kimball, President and Chief Executive Officer, Brooklyn Navy Yard

•New supermarket and industrial space

•Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92

oJob Training Center

oCafé and Event Space

•Green Manufacturing Center

Charles Jarden, Chair, Fort Greene Park Conservancy

•Park maintenance & refurbishment

•Park safety

•Programming & initiatives

Carol Anastasio, Director, Fort Greene Park NYC Parks & Recreation

•Park renovations

•Spring & summer programming

Deborah Howard, Executive Director, Pratt Area Community Council

•Foreclosure counseling for homeowner’s in distress

•Homebuyer education

•Eviction prevention and legal clinics for tenants particularly those facing harassment in larger rent stabilized buildings

•The Main Street program on Fulton Street

•Rolling up the Gates initiative

•Affordable housing development projects

o365 Jay Street

oNavy Green Supportive Housing

Phillip Kellogg, Manager, Fulton Area Business (FAB) Alliance

•Supporting established local businesses

•New businesses opening

•Much to discover in a short walk along Fulton

Sarah Farwell, Program Manage, Preservation & Streetscape Initiative, Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project

•New businesses on the avenue

•Myrtle Pedestrian Plaza

•Myrtle Eats Fresh initiatives

•Public Art

You will also receive updates from FGA Committees such as Good Neighbors, a project that allows Fort Greene’s elderly to grow old in the comfort of their own homes. Additionally, you will learn how you can participate, share your skills and talent with the FGA and your community.

Come hungry not only for information, you are invited to arrive early to meet your neighbors, business owners and elected officials to enjoy a complimentary tasting menu served at 7 PM sharp at the FGA’s Neighborhood Mixer sponsored by The Smoke Joint Restaurant Group (The Smoke Joint, Peaches Hot House and Peaches Restaurant & Bar) and Cake Joy. As always our FGA Neighborhood Mixer and Meeting is free admission, all are welcome to attend. We encourage you to please invite your neighbors and friends to join you.

Please visit www.historictfortgreene.org to view our meeting agenda and to learn of meeting updates.

The Fort Greene Association, Inc. is an all-volunteer organization, operating as a non-profit 501(c) (3) charitable organization that supports and works in concert with the many other fine organizations that make our community so special and vital. Please visit www.historicfortgreene.org to learn more about our organization. Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fortgreeneassn / Fan us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/346m57v