#community-boards

#community-boards

Brooklyn is divided into 18 community districts, each represented by a community board made up of up to 50 unsalaried members appointed by the borough president, with recommendations from City Council members. Board members reflect the diversity of their neighborhoods and serve two-year terms. Community boards act as an official advisory link between residents, City Hall, and municipal agencies. While they do not pass laws, their recommendations carry significant weight in decisions affecting land use, zoning, public safety, transportation, housing, parks, sanitation and economic development.

Founder/Executive Editor. I've been a Mission resident since 1998 and a professor emeritus at Berkeley's J-school since 2019. I got my start in newspapers at the Albuquerque Tribune in the city where I was born and raised. Like many local news outlets, The Tribune no longer exists. I left daily newspapers after working at The New York Times for the business, foreign and city desks. Lucky for all of us, it is still here.

The DSNY issued a Dec. 4 proposal to amend its rule governing the time for placing trash and recyclables at the curb for collection. The amendment would allow residents who receive collection on Saturdays to put their trash out in a container an hour before sunset the night before. A neighborhood's local community board would have to opt into the schedule; it is not an option for individual homeowners.

"This resolution acknowledges that e-bikers riding recklessly is an issue, but there are other ways to address this problem. It's simply unjust."