The Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare. Source: Google Maps
Please take notice that Community Board 11 will hold its next general meeting and public hearings on January 10 at 7:30 p.m. inside the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, 1740 84th Street.
The scheduled agenda features two public hearings:
- Pizza Daddy, 6422 Bay Parkway, seeks a revocable consent to construct and operate an enclosed sidewalk café with 10 tables and 31 seats on the 65th Street side.
- Also, 8973/95 Bay Parkway (Toys “R” Us)/Building C: 1684 Shore Parkway, seeks an amendment of variance permitting a department store (use group 10A), not currently permitted as of right.
For further information, call (718) 266-8800.
CommunityBoard 11 is hosting their monthly meeting on October 11 at 7:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. It’s held at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare at 1740 84th Street.
Please take notice that Community Board 11 will hold its general meeting and Public Hearing on Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare.
The address of the meeting is 1740 84th Street. Among other things, the discussion will cover budget recommendations for the following year.
According to Community Board 11 officials, One World, a medical group, may be opening a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the neighborhood.
District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia and Chairman Bill Guarinello said they were blindsided by the news, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
The community leaders were invited to a meeting with the medical group in order to talk about the plan. The meeting would a preliminary discussion as the board members don’t have much information to go on yet.
“We don’t have a location,” Guarinello told board members during their monthly meeting.
The board members have decided to wait until they have all of the information before they make any decisions concerning the development. Questions remain as to whether or not this would be an-inpatient center, how many patients would be treated and so on.
Guarinello has stated that locals may not approve of a rehab center in their neighborhood.
“People are probably going to go crazy,” he said.
Further, the opinions of the board may not even affect the development if the rehab center obtains the right zoning permits.
“I don’t know of we have a legal right to fight it,” Elias-Pavia told the other board members.
What do you think, is a local rehab center an issue for the community?
After a series of disappointments, two local Community Boards, along with elected officials, continue to lobby for an Emergency Room at the site of the former Victory Memorial Hospital in Southwestern Brooklyn, all while attempting to rally community activism.
Bill Guarinello, Chairman of CB 11, which serves Bath Beach and Bensonhurst, announced at a recent meeting that a new effort is underway, with Assemblyman Peter Abbate and State Senator Marty Golden working alongside CB 11, as well as CB 10 in Bay Ridge Continue Reading »
There will be a meeting of Community Board 11 Thursday, March 8, at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare.
The session is set to run from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
According to CB 11′s website, tomorrow evening’s meeting will include a “Public Hearing on the responses to the FY 2013 Preliminary Capital and Expense Budget Submissions.”
For more information, including minutes from past meetings, please visit BrooklynCB11.org.
The Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare (formerly the Holy Family Home) is located at 1740 84th Street, between Bay 16th and New Utrecht Avenue.
Community Board 11 serves Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Gravesend – roughly the same area as the 62nd Precinct. Its boundaries extend from 14th Avenue to 26th Avenue, Avenue U to McDonald Ave, and 61st Street to Gravesend Bay.
Community Board 11 will hold a general meeting and public hearing on Thursday, February 9, 2012.
It will take place at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare (formerly the Holy Family Home) at 1740 84th Street, between Bay 16th and New Utrecht Avenue. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.
For more details, please visit BrooklynCB11.org.
Community Board 11 serves Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Gravesend – roughly the same area as the 62nd Precinct. Its boundaries extend from 14th Avenue to 26th Avenue, Avenue U to McDonald Ave, and 61st Street to Gravesend Bay.
Like the flag shown above, CB11's new spangled banner includes 50 stars.
Thanks to one local Congressman, Community Board 11 will no longer be flying an outdated flag. Continue Reading »
The meandering curves of Bay Ridge’s Shore Road may harken back to the days when it was the scenic coastal road of a hamlet called Yellow Hook in the town of New Utrecht. However, a piece in yesterday’s Brooklyn Eagle reveals that after an increasing number of car crashes, Bay Ridge residents are concerned that the byway’s winding contours may pose a threat to pedestrian safety. Continue Reading »
(image courtesy of Jay New)
After our last story on the fate of the former Jerusalem Fruit Market, District Manager for Community Board 11 Marnee Elias-Pavia contacted Bensonhurst Bean in order to give our readers a heads up on what’s headed there.
Elias-Pavia, who has both been in touch with the property owner and reviewed paperwork filed with the city, told us the site should soon be home to a Valley National Bank.
The District Manager also informed us that CB 11, which had been receiving complaints about the fruit stand for years, was not exactly sad to see it go.
“Since I began working for the Community Board, over 13 years ago, this fruit store consistently generated complaints from the 86th Street shopping community, which ranged from trip hazards to sidewalk obstructions,” Elias-Pavia told the Bean. “Regarding the property at 2054 86th Street, the job filings show Valley National Bank as the applicant.”
The loss of Jerusalem Fruit may prove to be a mixed blessing. While it’s fortunate that 86th Street has one less bad neighbor, the community has also lost one more green grocer. We’re left wondering if the neighborhood really needs another bank.
