Crow Hill (that's us baby) Community meeting

Remember,
this is tomorrow (Tuesday) evening
Hoping to meet some of you
(I know, not quite as much fun as happy hour).

originally posted on this thread:
http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5195

I believe that helping your neighborhood grow happens over time and through many different avenues, therefore I don’t agree that working through the precinct or the community board is not effective, but I do agree with the rest of young snitch’s post

young snitch wrote: it's great that people want to get involved with the press and community boards. but you're beating the wrong drum. muster up the same energy for more trees, bike lanes, better supermarkets, a real bank, getting rid of bulletproof glass in chinese restaurants, better trash cleanup, community vegetable gardens or any other real improvement and stop screaming about an imaginary plague of violence.

To that end, last night Evangeline Porter gave a wonderful history of our neighborhood and the work the Crow Hill Community Council has accomplished in the past to help bring this area back to its former glory (including tree planting, tree guards, getting trash cans on the corners, sweeping Franklin, et., etc, etc.).

If you don’t have a block association to work with, than join up with Crow Hill and if you do have one, please make sure that you keep Crow Hill informed of your activities and concerns so that the sense of community integrity keeps growing. Their email is [email protected]

BTW, The Crow Hill Community Council does have 5013C status, so any projects/money run through them is tax deductible.

I also did have a long discussion with Detective Raton this morning and he was adamant about 2 things:
1. crime continues to drop in our community (despite periodic surges)
2. the community must stay involved and voice their concerns at the community council meetings.

regardless of one's take on what is/is not effective, when we were part of the "impact zone" (more police presence) street crime was down, we are coming up for consideration again for this in november and i for one want to make it clear that this community needs more attention

I am starting a community email contact list, if anyone wants to be included, you can pm me with your information.

it was the first meeting of the season and they happen on the third tuesday of each month.

there were about 20 people who were new to the Council (including myself) and the meeting was focused on bringing everyone up to speed on the community, its past issues and how they have been dealt with.

a community meeting is made up if its members, its members will determine what is important, bring your energy and ideas and that's the direction it will go in