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Street Cleaning: Alternate Side Parking Rules calendar

Here’s the current (2005) Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspension calendar. You can also download the PDF from NYC.gov. Note that on major legal holidays (marked with asterisk), stopping, standing, and parking are permitted, except in areas where stopping, standing, and parking rules are in effect 7 days a week (for example, "No Standing Anytime"). However, parking meters will not be in effect on major legal holidays.

January 1, Sat  New
Year’s Day*

January 17, Mon Martin
Luther King Jr.’s Birthday

January 20-22, Thurs-Fri-Sat Idul-Adha:
First/Second/Third Day

Feb 9, Wed  Asian
Lunar New Year

February 9, Wed Ash
Wednesday

February 11, Fri Lincoln’s
Birthday (Observed)

February 12, Sat Lincoln’s
Birthday

February 21, Mon Washington’s
Birthday (President’s Day)

March 24, Thurs  Holy
Thursday

March 25, Fri Good
Friday

March 25, Fri  Purim

April 24-25, Sun-Mon Passover:
First/Second Day

April 28, Thurs  Holy
Thursday (Orthodox)

April 29, Fri Good
Friday (Orthodox)

April 30-May 1, Sat-Sun Passover:
Seventh/Eighth Day

May 5, Thurs Solemnity
of Ascension

May 30, Mon Memorial
Day*

June 13-14 , Mon-Tues Shavuot:
First/Second Day

July 4, Mon Independence
Day*

August 15, Mon Feast
of Assumption

September 5, Mon Labor
Day*

October 4-5, Tues-Wed Rosh
Hashanah: First/Second Day

October 10, Mon Columbus
Day (Observed)

October 13, Thurs  Yom
Kippur

October 18-19, Tues-Wed Succoth:
First/Second Day

October 25, Tues Shemini
Atzereth

October 26, Wed Simchas
Torah

November 1, Tues  All
Saints Day

November 3-5, Thurs-Fri-Sat Idul-Fitr:
First/Second/Third Day

November 8, Tues Election
Day

November 11, Fri Veterans
Day

November 24, Thurs Thanksgiving
Day*

December 8, Thurs  Immaculate
Conception

December 25, Sun  Christmas
Day*

December 26, Mon  Christmas
Day (Observed)*

"You're Blighted"

Blight"…the latest skirmish began on Nov. 29 at a community meeting. James
Stuckey, an executive vice president at Mr. Ratner’s firm, Forest City
Ratner, was explaining the process of eminent domain…"

"… asking the state to obtain
property for them as a last resort … Mr. Stuckey said, would involve declaring properties in
the proposed arena footprint "blighted." The word drew jeers from
members of the audience, the newspaper reported, including one woman
who yelled back, ‘You’re blighted!’"

"’I don’t know if one is allowed to make a counter-blight argument,’ she
said, ‘but it could be made for everything that Ratner has built around
here thus far.’"

Ratner Applies Full-Court Press on the Downtown Arena

Brian J. Carreira writes, "Develop Don’t Destroy’s Robert Puca characterizes the CBA discussions
as a ‘dinner party where everyone at the table agrees with the host…’"

"With so many being shut out of the discussion so early in the game,
those who find comfort in being ‘at the table’ should be wary when it
comes time to pay the check."

More …

DOT Reconstructs Grand Army Plaza Traffic Island

"…DOT is continuing its efforts to improve safety in the Grand Army Plaza section of Brooklyn by improving a crucial traffic island next to the Brooklyn Public Library."

"Last week, DOT enlarged a triangular island that was initially built last year. This raised island provides extended refuge space for pedestrians who cross half of Flatbush Avenue and then await the rest of the crossing. DOT installed bollards along the entire perimeter of the traffic island to provide even greater protection for pedestrians."

WEINSHALL: "We received favorable comments when we installed this raised island last year – the bollards and the increase in space shall provide even more protection."

"A total of 39 bollards now surround the island – and DOT installed an additional 1,600 square feet of sidewalk. DOT worked in conjunction with the Prospect Heights Parents Association, who requested bollards as a means of further protection."

PICCED: Prospect Heights Neighborhood Survey Summary Report

The Pratt Institute Center for Community Environmental Development (PICCED) has released the PHeights report. Here is the Executive Summary (PDF) and Appendix (PDF).

"Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, has been the focus of significant media
attention after the unveiling of the proposed redevelopment of the
Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Project by Forest City Ratner Companies. The
multi-billion dollar plan includes a 19,000-seat Arena and basketball
sports complex, commercial space for office and retail and market-rate
housing. The Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council (PHNDC),
a local community advocacy group, commissioned PICCED to design an
extensive survey of people who live and work in Prospect Heights
about
existing conditions, as well as their concerns and vision for future
development of the neighborhood."

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Prospects for Prospect Heights Unclear

ImagesHow will Ratner’s stadium and 4,500 new housing units impact Downtown Brooklyn?

"Prospect Heights sits inside, and adjacent to, the Nets development in
Brooklyn, known as Atlantic Yards. No other neighborhood will be potentially helped
more, or hurt, by the barrage of construction. Altogether, there would be
4,500 housing units, 2.1 million square feet of office space, 300,000 square feet
of retail space, 3,000 parking spots and six acres of public open space. The
stadium, at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, will sit atop
the Long Island Rail Road rail yard."