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tional with only the potential for night
and weekend closures over the course
of a 15- to 20 month period, followed
three years of community engagement,
multiple agency planning, and
communication. Their joint letter on
Thursday, January 10th emphasized
the importance of restoring public
trust in the decision-making process
regarding the L train, a critical transportation
route, which is essential to
commuters in both Brooklyn and Manhattan
on a daily basis. In particular,
it called for an independent analysis
of the amended plan, maintaining the
proposed mitigation improvements,
increased community engagement,
and reinvestment of all cost savings.
More information on the L train is
available at mta.info.
FEBRUARY
Amid the weeklong humanitarian
crisis at the Metropolitan Detention
Center (MDC) in Sunset Park, Borough
President Adams demanded that
the US Bureau of Prisons restore heat,
hot meals, and lighting to inmates at
the detention facility who had been enduring
days of inhumane conditions
including frigid cells, power outages,
no access to medicine or showers, and
a lack of hot water during unseasonably
cold weather. He helped convene
an interfaith group of clergy members
and community advocates outside
MDC on Sunday, February 3rd on the
federal government to pay attention
to the needs of the physical and emotional
needs of the inmates, many of
whom are awaiting trial and have not
been convicted of any crime. Power
was restored that evening, and Borough
President Adams has expressed
continued gratitude to Brooklyn’s
Congressional delegation for their continued
leadership on an investigation
of this matter.
Borough President Adams and
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) Executive
Director Charlotte Cohen announced
$22,500 in new Destination>Brooklyn
mini-grants to 15 local arts and culture
organizations to advance cultural tourism
across the borough; this allocation
brings the program’s total investment
to local arts and culture organizations
to more than $140,000 since 2015. The
grant program, now in its fi fth year of
operation, supports the promotion of
local artistic groups to a broader audience
through the creation, production,
and distribution of print promotional
materials, funded by the Offi ce of the
Brooklyn Borough President and NYC
& Company Foundation. The arts and
culture organizations receiving a grant
included Afro-Latin@ Project, Arts
Gowanus, Asian American Women
Artists Alliance, Brooklyn Heights
Music Society, Brooklyn Raga Massive,
Center for Performance Research
(CPR), Coalition to Preserve Reggae
Music, Cora Dance, Covenant Ballet
Theatre of Brooklyn, Falconworks Artists
Group, FiveMyles, Fulton Art Fair,
Greenpoint Film Festival, and Jalopy
Theatre and School of Music.
Borough President Adams joined, from left to right, State Sen.
Brian Kavanagh, Representatives Nydia Velasquez and Carolyn
Maloney, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and other
community leaders outside the Lorimer Street L train station in
Williamsburg to demand answers regarding the viability of proposed
changes to the planned L train shutdown.
Borough President’s offi ce / Eugene Resnick
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