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EPA: Gowanus Canal cleanup fund nearly depleted, Trump won’t help (Brooklyn Eagle)

CityViews: Rent-Burdened Seniors Deserve Better from NY State (City Limits)

De Blasio's “Two Cities” – One with Transportation and One Without (NYSlant)

New York Spends $1.2 Billion a Year on Homelessness and yet the problem is only getting worse (New York Magazine)
I’m from right here — this neighborhood [Gowanus], all my life. I spent the first ten or 11 years on Union Street, on Garfield Place. That was the best part of my childhood — stickball, cocolevio. And then, for like 32 years, we lived on Butler Street. In my father’s house, there were nine of us. My parents come from Puerto Rico. I remember when the Puerto Ricans and the Italians were fighting on Fifth Avenue. I remember when Fifth Avenue was mostly abandoned from, let’s say, Barclays to Flatbush, all of Fifth Avenue, all of the buildings were abandoned.

Avery Hall closes on Park Slope grocery store site for $45.6 million (The Real Deal)

The Art of Broker-Speak?? - $2M 15th Street condo a "modern version of Narnia" (NY Times)

Getting to Zero: Recyclables (Open House New York)

MTA Bags Experiment of Removing Trash Cans from Platforms (NY1)

The Life and Death of (trumpet player) Lee Morgan (WNYC)

Volunteer Hike at Freshkills Park on April 9th (Freshkills Park Alliance)

Early Spring Bird Walk - Jamaica Bay, NY - Sat Apr 1st 10:00am - 1:00pm (American Littoral Society)

Weather permitting, Ruby's will be open noon-8 pm April 1 & 2. See you on the boardwalk!