via City Limits
Giving Citizens a Budgeting Voice
Residents of four City Council districts will soon vote on how to spend $1 million in their communities as part of a pilot program called participatory budgeting.
Place: Brooklyn
via New York Daily News
Long Waits at Food Stamps Center
Lines outside – and inside – the Northern Brooklyn Food Stamp and DeKalb Job Centers are typical, clients say.
A Birds’ Eye View in Prospect Park
The Audubon Society runs free birdwatching tours in the Brooklyn park, which is home to some 250 aviary species.
via The Local
Hot Jazz for Cool Seniors
On Friday nights, Brooklyn's Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center is transformed into a nightclub called Jazz 966.
Board Game Store Roles the Dice
Brooklyn's Twenty Sided Store sells board games, but dedicates much of its space to tables for gaming events.
via New York Daily News
Neighborhood Plagued by Dirty Parks
Parks in a swath of Brooklyn that includes Canarsie and Flatlands have earned the city's lowest cleanliness marks for the last three years, records show.
Hiroshima Survivor’s Peace Message
Setsuko Thurlow, who was 13 at the time of the blast, spoke to Brooklyn high school students as part of the "Hibakusha Stories" effort to promote nuclear disarmament.
Russian Ballot Backlash in NYC
A small, but passionate group of Russian opposition activists is asking emi…