Please read through the ideas submitted by your neighbors.
Give a “star rating” to ones that you like and think will benefit the community. More stars means you like it more. Click on the idea for some more info.
Overall, we use several metrics when assessing these projects. We look at equity, viability, and impact. Who does the project serve? Are we serving all parts of the district equitably? Who will it impact? What kind of impact will it have? Etc. These are the kinds of lenses we look at these projects with, so keep them in mind when you’re putting together your ideas.
Once we finish collecting all our ideas, have input from the community (both online and at our assemblies) then they will be turned over to our Project Committees for review.
- I would like to see railing installed on all the staircases on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park. I am a long-time birder and getting up in years. It is very dangerous for me and for other seniors, etc., to climb the stairs without railings to hold on to. Particularly the steep staircase on the southwest (lake) side of the hill. Ideally, the park would install new steps and railings, since the steps are all broken up except for one staircase they fixed (Md. Monument), but the immediate issue is installing railings, so that infirm park goers can enjoy the hill along with everyone else. Thank you. Maude Brown
- Elevator in the train station
- Dog Run for Kensington/ Windsor Terrace
- High school application curriculum for underprivileged applicants
- Budget for lower-rating high schools in district
- Budget for Park Slope Library
- Hand Sanitizer Dispensers that don’t breed super bacteria
- Traffic Light and/or Stop Sign at Greenwood Av and East 7th Street
- Citizenship classes for green card holders and undocumented
- Free, Public Phone Charging Stations
- Mobile food/coffee cart that employs the homeless/unemployed/undocumented
- Counselor in Training. for Spanish speakers ages 11 to 17 year olds
- Effiicient Vehicular Traffic Flow
- Shared Responsibility for Cyclists
- Review Standards That Permit Excessive Volume of Emergency Sirens
- Enforcement Against Drag-racing on Prospect Expressway
- Solar Compactor Trash Cans for NE and SE corners of 7th Ave & 8th St
- Mural on 10th st
- Sidewalk bench clean up
- Sufficient bathrooms for students at MS 442
- Redesign and rehabilitate Thomas J Cuite Park
- A complete make-over of Carroll Park to include artificial turf baseball and soccer fields, much like all the other parks are doing. Think a slighlty smaller JJ Byrne Park.
- Students and families need a sense of belonging in school!
- Provide sidewalk garbage cans by PS295
- Carroll Park needs a makeover
- Build Farm To Table Culinary Project at Boerum Hill School for International Studies.
- Build Farm To Table Culinary Project at Boerum Hill School for International Studies.
- update faded street signs
- The Outdoor Community Space for Borough Park Library
- Resources materials to support middle school diversity plan
- Washington Park – Mitigation of overnight noise and illicit usage
- A much safer and fair traffic laws arrangement
- A Dog Run
- Upgrade the workout area next to Harmony Playground
- Revive the old trolley bus service in Prospect Park, every 15-20 minutes
- Additional resources for D15 Middle School Diversity Plan
- Reroute traffic in front of the Backyard Community Garden in RedHook, on Summit, and make the traffic island there an extension of the Garden. Also, one or two speed bumps on 17th Street between Prospect Park West and 10th Ave.
- We need a southbound bike lane that runs from Atlantic all the way south to Hamilton.
- Update 4th street/jj byrne dog park
- Free, accessible, and rigorous SHSAT test prep/practice tests for all 8th graders
- Benches by Prospect Park Lake
- Change the B69 bus route
- Windsor Terrace Footbridges Revamp
- Elevator for Seventh Ave F train subway station
- Make Smith St Safe and Clean
- One clean filtered faucet for every public school in District 39
- Traffic Light at Corner of Seeley Street and Prospect Park Southwest – Windsor Terrace
- Improve the playground on Schemerhorn between Nevins and 3rd
- Adding Link NYC booths in Kensington & Borough Park
- Adding Link NYC booths in Kensington & Borough Park
- Adding Link NYC booths in Kensington & Borough Park
- Repave/replace the path in Prospect Park that rings the lake on the Windsor Terrace side of the park
- Connect the Berms
- New Bus route
- Cameras placed on foot bridges in Windsor Terrence
- Traffic Calming at Church Ave/Ocean Pkwy
- Protected Bike Lanes in Southern Half of District
- New sod for lawn at East Fourth Street Community Garden, part of GreenThumb/NYC Parks
- Laundry for homeless
- Pilot commercial trash/recycling receptacles on street
- Eliminate a health public hazard
- Smart lighting — or at least LIGHTS — along the Hicks St. overpass at Carroll St.
- Graffiti wall on F train at Smith Street and 4th Place – 2nd Place
- traffic calming on 8th Avenue
- Open the Carroll Gardens library on Sundays
- Repaving and bike lanes on fort Hamilton parkway!
- Restore 4th Ave to it’s former glory!
- More public trash cans
- Dog run at Carroll Park
- fix 225 14 street
- Provide additional funds so that the Parks Dept and maintain our city streets i.e. pruning and removing dead trees
- Air Quality Assessment For Smith Street
- Build A Green Wall In St Marys Playground
- Air conditioning the cafeteria workers at for PS58 and PS497and
- Crosswalk on Smith St and Huntington or Nelson or Luquer.
- Diaper-changing station at Park Slope Playground (Lincoln/Berkeley) Bathroom
- Book dropbox for Park Slope Library
- Library book drop on weekends
- A new drinking/water fountain in Prospect Park near Grand Army Plaza
- tiles for PS 130 lower school
- A Wall for Projector/Screen at Avenue C Plaza
- Tree Guards for 7th Avenue tree beds
- Support for Interference Archive
- Better lighting and cameras on FHP overpass
- Make the passenger cross bridge at summit street and hicks safer for our kids
- Summit Street Bridge
- Provide funds for the Kensington shelter to set up a big brothers/big sister program with local high school students and kids at the shelter
- Improvements to the playground at PS 230 (Kensington)
- partner with DEP to give homeowners free rain barrels to collect stormwater
- partner with DSNY to expand residential building compost outreach
- the foot bridge over the BQE at Summit St. needs to be much safer!
- Make the crossing at the footbridge over the BQE and Summit St SAFER. There needs to be better visibility of the oncoming vehicles.
- Make Columbia Street safer!
- Footbridge over the BQE and Summit St SAFER
- Resurface the soccer fields at the Parade Grounds!
- Air Conditioning for PS 282!
- Winter Domes for Playgrounds
- Fix staircases in Prospect Park.
- New Play Structure at 180 7th Avenue/P.S.321
- Protected bike lane on Caton Avenue
- Speed bumps for dangerous turns off PPW
- Baby changing station at Carroll Park
- Baby changing station at Carroll Park
- My idea is for Bangladeshi women’s counseling services in Kensington, Brooklyn
- Fix and Modernize PS 230 Jungle Gym/Child Playground Bathrooms
- Redesign and Reimagine Carroll Park
- Needed Upgrades to St.Mary’s Playground
- expand programming at local libraries. I just checked. Even with a Bklyn library festival very limited or no offering at 3 local libraries: but look at this article:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sunday/civil-society-library.htmlt very extensive or imaginaring. but look at this article:
- Water fountains along ocean parkway
- Would it be possible to have benches put along every few blocks on fifth Avenue for neighbors to hang out?
- Drinking fountain for Windsor Terrace Library
- More trash cans – including recycling
- Clean Up Park Slope’s 7th Avenue
- Create a dog run in Carroll Park
- Beautify Smith Street under the F/G Tracks.
- Create an after-hours book drop off for the Windsor Terrace library branch
- Forsythia Festival
- Ramps on 7th avenue street crossings
- Shade over Prospect Park Playground
- Park Slope library book drop
- Community Resources/Health & Wellness
- More benches at ALL the bus stops
- Col Cook sq at McD, Caton and FthamParkway: please add benches along the Caton Ave Side (where gas stations are). Add several benches facing Green Wood cementery, and open up space for more sitting.
- Sandbox or sandbox village
- Build an enclosed overpass over Expressway
- Expand Ft. Hamilton Pkwy bike lane over Prospect Expway so it’s two way
- Cadman turf renewal
- Additional bike racks by the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park
- have better outdoor bathrooms in park at PO Machete circle instead of smelly porto sans
- Convert a unused park in my neighborhood to a skatepark
- Trash Bins for 3rd Avenue
- Turf Playing Field for Greenwood Playground!
- Recycling cans in Prospect Park
- Make pedestrian crossing at Hicks and Summit St Safer
- Intersection improvements on 9th street
- A book drop box for the 9th St. Park Slope branch of the Brooklyn Public Library
- Repave the tennis courts at Vonhorees park (Congress between Hicks/BQE and VanBrundt). Parks has tried to repair them but their in need of repaving.
- More Trees In Red Hook!
- Bathrooms and sound barrier for St Mary’s Playground
- Fix a sewer
- Install Glow paint in street signs
- Place a Stop sign or better a traffic light at the corner of Sherman Street and !!th Ave. Creates safety for children and Crossing Guards . This is a speed trap for local traffic and traffic that has exited the Prospect Expressway to make light at 11th Ave and Windsor. Another place a speed sign (like on ocean parkway) to indicate how fast cars are going. Trim tree in front of School so that 20 mile an hour sign is not blocked.
- Water fountain/bottle filler at the Windsor Terrace Library
- Give to schools, so that teachers don’t have to spend their hard earned money on supplies.
- Speed Bumps on East 7th St (between Caton and Church)
- free wifi access in all parks, community gardens, school yards and other public spaces.
- Update playgrounds to be more special needs friendly
- Crossing guard
- Air Conditioning for MS447 Cafeteria
- An enclosed dog park in Prospect Park
- Air Conditioning at PS 282
- Renovate albermarle playground.
- A crosswalk at the eastbound entrance to the BQE at Hamilton Avenue by Hicks Street, behind The Brooklyn New School, PS 146
- Safer crossing at the corner of Flatbush Avenue/St. Johns Place/Plaza Street East & West
- Raised Crossings at Major Park Locations
- Renovation of Albemarle (PS 230) Playground
- Preserve the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch and the Bailey Fountain
- A small amount of funding or subsidization for individuals picking up litter in the neighborhood.
- Outdoor Movies in the Park in Spring/Fall
- MORE TREES
- Kensington garbage problem
- New turf / grass at Cadman Plaza Park.
- Better crossing/pedestrian safety in Windsor Terrace.
- Benches in the Greenwood Playground ballfields
- New equipment at 3rd street playground
- Fix the massive cracks in tennis courts at Van Voorhees park.
- After hours locked book drop for the Park Slope Library
- Bus shelter
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