New Slate to Promote Safer Streets and More Playgrounds
Kan tzivah is the center of it all. But it is also at the center of New York City.
With all the negative changes taking place in New York in the last few years, our neighborhood and community has experienced some of these changes as well, from increased crime to antisemitic incidents.
The streets that we live on feel a bit more scary. We hear about incidents that make us think twice before venturing out at night, or letting our children walk to school or the store alone.
Baruch Hashem, we have many local organizations that have been instrumental in providing security to our shechuna, including Shmira, Shomrim and Chaverim.
But we still have much work to do to restore a sense of safety and security on our streets.
We believe this can be done. By improving communication and representation with our local police departments, we will work on bringing a more visible and active police presence to our streets. We will also lobby Albany for security grants and funding that our community needs and deserves.
There are of course many other programs available to raise the quality of life for our families, including funded after-school programs offering children a safe and comfortable environment for continued growth. Such programs have the added benefit of allowing parents the space and time to tend to younger children as well.
Other quality-of-life issues the community must look into are the ever-multiplying CitiBike installations, and New York City’s expanding network of bike lanes, some of which are being proposed in high-traffic areas within the neighborhood.
In all of this, we are committed to fighting for our community’s needs and always keeping its best interests in mind.
We will also be working on getting the playgrounds adjacent to public schools spread throughout Crown Heights to be opened on days and during hours when school is not in session so that the local community can enjoy them, as well as alleviate the overcrowding we experience in the few public parks we have in the shechuna
On June 2, 25 Sivan, please vote for the unified slate of candidates running for the Vaad Hakahal: Meir New, Berel Hildesheim, Dovid Leib Halon, Zalman Friedman, and Shmuel Rosenstein, five yungerleit committed to actively representing the interests of the entire Crown Heights Jewish community.
Yankel Goldstein
Although I am running as a member of the Vaad HaKahol I wish to state that when we say and state things in public we must make sure they are correct and accurate. ” We will be working to getting the playgrounds adjacent to Public schools open to our community during non-school hours”. When I was Chairman of Community Board 9 (34) years , I approached the NYC Board of Ed About opening the next
Yankel Goldstein
next door to Beis Rivkah for communal use and was rebuffed by the NYC Board of Education because of Insurance as non-public school children are not covered under the law. Good try will not work and that has not changed to date. I wish someone would have talked to me prior to writing.
ch resident
Idk what you’re referring to but jewish families on the block campaigned to get it opened to the public and it worked. They had access up until 2 years ago (and then construction began). So maybe another try – or a harder try – was necessary.