UPDATE: Brooklyn Food Coalition Bed-Stuy Action Alert! + Winter Party
| December 10, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
Hello Bed Stuy community,
Here’s information about our Bed-Stuy Farm Action Alert, the Brooklyn Food Coalition Winter Party, and the details of our next Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Council meeting.
BED-STUY FARM ACTION ALERT
You can help save Bed-Stuy Farm! Please spread the word!
Bed-Stuy Farm has Greenthumb status and is a working farm that produces over 7000 pounds of produce per year and feeds 3000 people a month. Once a vacant lot & dumping ground, it is now a magnet for the community; an educational center offering courses in farming and nutrition and supplies the emergency food program & farmers markets. ¨
It is now in danger of being sold by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to developers to repay a debt incurred by Neighborhood Partnership Housing Development/Direct Building Management.
Bed-Stuy Farm has received community support with over 1200 petition signatures and local and national press. They have presented 1200 signatures to elected officials and received favorable responses, but need written letters of support!
The loss of Bed Stuy Farm will also begin the encroachment of other community gardens that provide a place for seniors,young people & other community members to grow their own fresh food!
Help take action and call, email, write or stop by the office of the following elected officials. Tell them you’re a constituent and you want them to write a letter of support to HPD to save Bed-Stuy Farm:
Velmanette Montgomery
30 Third Avenue, Room 1100, 11th Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: (718) 643-6140
E-mail: montgome@senate.state.ny.us
Darlene Mealy
1757 Union Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Phone: (718) 953-3097
E-mail: darlene.mealy@council.nyc.gov
Annette Robinson
360 Fulton Street, Room 417
Brooklyn, NY 11216
Phone: (718) 399-7630
E-mail: RobinsonA@assembly.state.ny.us
Ed Towns
186 Joralemon Street, Ste. 1102
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Phone: (718) 855-8018
E-mail: Jonathan.Noble@mail.house.gov
Al Vann
613-619 Throop Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11216
Phone: (718) 919-0740/1
E-mail: avann@council.nyc.gov
Helen Foster
1377 Jerome Ave.
Bronx, New York 10452
Phone: (718) 588-7500
E-mail:foster@council.nyc.gov
BROOKLYN FOOD COALITION WINTER PARTY
Please represent our neighborhood and come celebrate BFC’s 6 months of organizing on behalf of Food Justice! We hope to see you there!
Thursday, December 10 (tomorrow)
388 Atlantic Ave. (bet. Hoyt & Bond Sts.), BROOKLYN
Hoyt-Schermerhorn (A/C/G), Bergen St. (F/G)
6:30pm-10:00pm
$5-$50 donation (pay what you can, no one will be turned away)
Learn more and RSVP here:
http://brooklynfoodcoalition.ning.com/events/bfc-winter-party
BED-STUY NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
Our next meeting will be held in mid-January at Brooklyn Rescue Mission. Date and time TBD! Much to discuss and get moving forward for the new year! Stay tuned for details in the upcoming week.
If you haven’t yet, please become an organizer at our Ning site to stay up to date with our neighborhood and the BFC’s happenings: http://brooklynfoodcoalition.ning.com
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
Yours in food democracy,
Allyson Lynch
Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Council Delegate
Phone: 718.864.9304
E-mail: missalboogie@gmail.com
12 December 2009, 8:02 am
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