NY Observer by Spencer Morgan September 22, 2009

Meet Doug Biviano: Brooklyn-born, just like his father and his father before him; a Brooklyn Heights resident, a P.S. 8 proud parent, as in his three kids with wife Lee are actually enrolled in the public school system; he’s a Girl Scout Dad, too. A Cornell-trained civil engineer (his consultants had to keep reminding him to mention the Ivy League bit), Biv didn’t like working for the machine as a professional any more than he likes machine politicians, or the phonies who claim to be reformers and then play patty-cake with bigwigs behind closed doors: He quit the engineering biz and for the past 9 years he’s worked as the superintendent over at One Grace Court. When the building served him notice that he needed to pack it up and find another gig on account of his family health care plan costing them too much, “I said, you know what, I’m going all in on this,” said Mr. Biviano, who is 40, but has the energy of a 27-year-old guy. He found a store front on Montague Street and hung a shingle: Doug Biviano for City Council. Old school. He lost, came in sixth out of seven candidates. No one can deny Biv shook things up.  Read article...

Squibb Park & PS 8 -- We Did It!
Thank You Parks Department, Tax Payers, Daily Eagle and Petioners!

Rundown Playground In Heights Gets New Life
Work Begins at Squibb Park; Candidate Pressed for Reopening

By Raanan Geberer
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – For at least five years, the Squibb Playground in the North Heights near the waterfront has been closed to the public...

...A call to the Parks Department revealed that “Squibb Park is expected to open in the spring. Our intention in Phase 1 is to put some skate elements in the park as well as the improved landscaping, new fencing and new pavement. Work has already begun on the comfort station. Total construction cost is $1.2 million.”

...As of yesterday, 165 people have signed [Biviano's] online petition about reopening Squibb to provide an alternative play space for P.S. 8’s kids -- on top of 700 people who have already signed a hard-copy petition.

...the Biviano campaign, said that before the petition, “There was basically a breakdown in communication – that option [reopening Squibb Park] had been forgotten.” Then, he said, the campaign took it to the Parks Department – “We started to poke around and see if that conversation could get going again.”

...Biviano also contacted the administration at P.S. 8, and asked them to get Parks to call. Soon, things began to get on track.

...“I’m an engineer,” said Biviano. “I hopped that fence in my dress [shoes] and my slacks, and I surveyed [the park] when we started our petition, and I knew we weren’t far from a solution. I’m also a P.S. 8 parent...

Brooklyn Heights Blog. Brooklyn Heights resident and candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 33rd NYC Council District Doug Biviano received the endorsement of his mentor Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) this morning.

Biviano, his family and supporters  stood at the top of the steps of his 89 Montague Street campaign headquarters with Kucinich and his wife Elizabeth.

The  2008 presidential candidate got right to the point, saying of Biviano, “His drive, his honesty, his integrity, his willing to stand up for the public interest make him exactly the kind of person who is needed not only in Brooklyn in the City Council, but we need Doug Bivianos in City Councils all over the country.”  Read article...