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Borough President Adams, center right, was joined by school faculty, superintendents, teachers, and students from across Brooklyn
as he unveiled more than $25 million in Fiscal Year 2019 funds from Brooklyn Borough Hall to advance STEAM — science, technology,
engineering, arts, and mathematics — education across more than 175 schools in the borough. Eugene Resnick / Brooklyn BP’s Offi ce
The borough president’s capital budget report
Borough President Adams has made
it his mission to build a thriving
borough that is economically
competitive with ever-expanding educational
opportunities for our young
people, a strong health care system,
and growing arts opportunities. Your
tax dollars are allocated by Brooklyn
Borough Hall to various initiatives
that help make our borough a better
place to raise healthy children and
families. Borough President Adams’
Fiscal Year 2019 funding totaled more
than $40 million, including more than
$25 million to advance STEAM — science,
technology, engineering, arts,
and mathematics — education across
more than 175 schools in the borough.
He unveiled the educational funding
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s
Building 77 — the site of the future
Brooklyn STEAM Center — a fi rst-ofits
kind facility in New York City that
will support students with real-world
work experience in emerging professions.
That project, which you can
read more about on page 12, was allocated
$5 million as part of the overall
education budget.
“A noted educator once said, ‘Don’t
tell me where your priorities are …
show me where you spend your money
and I’ll tell you what they are,’ ” said
Borough President Adams. “This budget
shows the world where Brooklyn’s
priorities are: preparing our children
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for college and career success that
will power the future of our city —
STEAM power. This capital budget is
helping to cultivate Brooklyn’s next
generation of scientists, engineers,
technicians, architects, and innovators.
This is about ensuring that our
young people are empowered with the
skills to compete in the global economy
once they graduate from their
studies.”
Neighborhoods across Brooklyn
received an education grant this year,
including schools in Bath Beach,
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bergen Beach,
Boerum Hill, Borough Park, Brownsville,
Bushwick, Canarsie, Carroll
Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Coney
Island, Crown Heights, Cypress
Hills, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO,
Dyker Heights, East Flatbush, East
New York, East Williamsburg, Flatbush,
Flatlands, Fort Greene, Gravesend,
Kensington, Manhattan
Beach, Mapleton, Midwood, Mill Basin,
Park Slope, Prospect Heights,
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Red Hook,
Sheepshead Bay, Sunset Park, Williamsburg,
and Windsor Terrace.
Borough President Adams also
emphasized the importance of preserving
and expanding the supply of
quality, affordable housing throughout
Brooklyn through $3.3 million
in multiple Fiscal Year 2019 investments,
including:
Borough President Adams, center, was joined by Mayor de Blasio,
far right, and other community leaders at the groundbreaking of
a new school in East New York, one of many neighborhoods that
received an education grant with capital budget funds from the
borough president. Borough President’s Offi ce / Erica Sherman
• Construction of green spaces.
• Low-income housing for seniors
and the formerly homeless.
• A new mobile food lab.
• Security cameras for public housing.
Borough President Adams
also granted:
• $5.6 million to parks and open
space.
• $2.9 million for community development.
• $2.2 million to health care and
community services.
• $1.4 million for libraries and cultural
institutions.