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Wednesday, 03 August 2011 20:49 |
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UPDATE Oct. 27, 2011:
by Linda Collins (
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If you believe the shellfish are edible, you might also belly up to Millman, Squadron and Bloomberg's latest Brooklyn Bridge Park shell game. Millman and Squadron coughed up their vetoes over development in BBP based on a formula fine printed with a 2-year "...DEADLINE of Jan. 1, 2014, for the Watchtower properties to change ownership; after that date, the city will release requests for proposals for the two other apartment buildings" (NY Times, empahsis mine).
I'll make a few of my own points, but more importantly, below is Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund's press release regarding this raw deal as it should come with the same warning on the menu. Like shellfish poisoning, you swallow thinking it tastes good in the moment. Read more...
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Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:45 |
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I did what I could do. At first I told the young man, "You're go ing to be OK, help is on the way." Although he did not appear to be conscious, I didn't want him to feel alone. His deep convulsive breaths gave some hope. He was hanging on. His body was strewn sideways across the backseat, right leg at a right angle to his torso, pinned to mush under the steering column. His left thigh bone protruded from the wrangled flesh, thigh muscle inside out. His left foot dangled from sinew. Dust and debris covered him and hid the red of the blood. It looked like a war scene after the bombs stop. The frazzled young lady who was on the cell phone pacing down the off ramp was near. She is what made me stop and why I also knew that help was on the way. ... Read more.
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 23:59 |
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My heart goes out to the people of Japan for their great loss and their heroes who will meet their untimely doom trying to curtail the nuclear meltdown. Each blast at Fukushima represents a dirty bomb on the Japanese and all others downwind or stream. But as the earthquake's destruction exposed the reactor cores so has this international crisis further exposed the rotting core of the campaign finance system of our elected officials here in America, local to federal, should you want to see it. This is President Obama's dirty little secret. Read more ...
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Thursday, 17 February 2011 12:36 |
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PLEASE VOTE NOW! 
Vote for the P.S. 8 Film Club's video, "Saving Water 101," and help our Brooklyn School win $36,000 in technology. We're currently 2nd of 6 finalists nationally.
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011 11:09 |
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PS8 Robert Fulton School: please help PS8's Middle School Expansion Application  with the Dept. of Ed. by showing strength in numbers with community support. Sign our Petition HERE.
PS 8, currently preK - 5 in Brooklyn District 13, is a creative learning community that is dedicated to having all of its members flourish. Our mission is academic excellence and, in its pursuit, we are committed to the development of the whole child.
We wish for our children to continue to experience this model into Middle School through the 8th grade within their community.
Here is an example of our whole child approach, a routine writing assignment of one our 5th graders:
Japan
“Dinner's ready!” Shouted my mother. Her voice reminded me of a crane, hoarse but cheerful. Read more ...
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Wednesday, 02 March 2011 10:00 |
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For Immediate Release
March 1, 2011
Love Your Neighborhood School.
To Preempt Teacher Layoffs and Cuts in Enrichment,
Biviano Launches Directory to Easily Contribute Online
and Raise Awareness That It Takes a Village...
 Brooklyn, NY -- Former New York State Assembly Candidate and P.S. 8 parent Doug Biviano is leading the charge to ensure that no child is left behind. "Our PTA is ramping up fundraising efforts to maintain the caliber of school our community has built over the past decade. To meet this goal -- by doubling our annual fundraising efforts to $500,000 -- we must think outside the parent body box and encourage all in the community to take a greater stake in ownership of our schools' successes by contributing and aggressively teaching friends to emulate."
He continued, "This investment in our future goes far beyond the P.S. community and what is thought of as normal. Read more ...
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Thursday, 09 December 2010 12:10 |
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Dear Parents and Neighbors, You must show up and comment for our middle school situation to improve. Signs are great too. Things will not fix themselves. They never have. Here's a press release I sent to the NY Press with all the details. -- Thanks, Doug Biviano
For Immediate Release
December 6, 2010
Dec. 8 Public Hearing Arts & Letters K-8 Expansion's Impact,
Negative on PS8 Community's Middle School Options
Former New York State Assembly Candidate and P.S. 8 parent Doug Biviano lamented the impact of the proposed grade expansion by Urban Assembly Academy of Arts & Letters (A&L) middle school in Ft. Greene, "Although this is great news for students able to attend Arts & Letters, half the middle school seats makes a bad situation worse for the P.S. 8 community and other District 13 students who will be left behind." He continued, "Parents I know are already having nightmares over our in district middle school choices, especially when M.S. 571 is par for the course. We hope that elected officials and the DOE will put the decades of neglect behind them when it comes to District 13 -- one of the worst performing school districts in New York City -- and get to work fixing it. I know of no greater or immediate cause for Cathie Black to champion in proving herself to New Yorkers." Read more ...
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