| נשלח ב-13/9/2005 21:23 |
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Mench
Why are you taking out only the bad part of the article why don't you read the whole artice?
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| נשלח ב-13/9/2005 22:43 |
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One think we all agree
Bloomberg was never accounted for tax increases
we must held him for that
It became a city where only a man of $500k can live here with out debt
Its a mass people are not in real world
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| נשלח ב-14/9/2005 01:32 |
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Big party tonight at the Brooklyn Marriot
Will post pictures & details later
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| נשלח ב-15/9/2005 01:34 |
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Building Up, Looking Out in Borough Park
Brooklyn Skyline
April 25, 2005
By Lisa Murphy
Get ready for an El of a lot more housing in Borough Park.
The city is set to start developing a six-block strip of unused land once set aside for the defunct elevated railway known as the ''Culver El,'' according to city officials. Right now, this stretch land along 37th Street in Borough Park is only used for parking and storage.
The project was announced at a recent breakfast meeting in Borough Park, where Mayor Bloomberg told neighborhood leaders about plans to create several hundred new housing units and expand the Hatzolah volunteer ambulance corps.
Also at the breakfast meeting - councilmen Simcha Felder and Bill De Blasio, Housing Commissioner Shaun Donovan, Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz, president of the Southern Brooklyn Community Organization (SBCO), and Professor Elliot Roseman of Hatzolah.
In Borough Park, the population grew by 15.6% between 1990 and 2000 but there was only a 4.5% increase in housing. Rezoning the Culver strip - including two city-owned blocks - for residential use will allow the creation of several hundred residential units. The city has initiated an environmental review for the rezoning; the public review will begin this fall.
In addition to the rezoning, the city will sell the two city-owned blocks to the SBCO, a not-for-profit organization that develops affordable housing in Borough Park and Kensington. The SBCO will develop approximately 80 owner-occupied affordable apartments for families earning the area median income or below ($62,800 for a family of four).
The sale will be initiated by the city's Department of Housing Preservation & Development as part of the Bloomberg administration's $3 billion plan to create and preserve more than 65,000 homes and apartments over the next five years.
''Our community is a community of families, a community where parents, children and grandchildren often live within walking distance of one another, a community with the highest proportion of both infants and seniors,'' said Felder. ''Meeting the unique needs of this community takes a willingness to make bold and inspired decisions. Mayor Bloomberg's solution in working towards addressing two major concerns - housing and health care - is indeed both bold and inspired, and he is to be commended.''
''Locating space to build more affordable housing in Borough Park has been near impossible and many large families have been priced out of the market as there is practically no housing stock left,'' said Rabbi Lefkowitz. ''The Culver El has been dormant for over 20 years, and today this mayor is taking action and responding to the needs of the community.''
At the breakfast, the mayor also announced the sale of a 5,000 square foot lot along the Culver El at the northeast corner of 37th Street and 14th Avenue to Hatzolah of Borough Park.
''To complement this effort, we will also be selling an underutilized lot to Hatzolah, which will allow for the growth and expansion of an organization that has been a vital part of the Borough Park community. I thank Councilmembers Simcha Felder and Bill De Blasio for working closely with my office and local leaders of the Borough Park community to move these important initiatives forward,'' the mayor declared.
Hatzolah is the neighborhood's volunteer ambulance corps, with a staff of 140 and five ambulances. The organization will construct a 15,000 square foot building to contain a street-level parking garage for its ambulances, training facilities and offices.
The proposed facility will be Hatzolah of Borough Park's second, allowing the corps to expand training, increase and diversify vehicle dispatch points and improve response times. The project will be funded entirely by private funds raised by Hatzolah of Borough Park. The sale of the lot will be done through the city's Economic Development Corporation.
Founded in 1988, Hatzolah of Borough Park provides critical ambulance service in Borough Park and the surrounding neighborhoods and works closely with the FDNY. The corps has a daytime response time of under four minutes and an eight-minute night-time response time, and operates with no federal, state or city aid.
Coordinating with local precincts and individual hospitals, Hatzolah provides Yiddish-speaking EMT's and paramedics. In 2003, Hatzolah responded to more than 25,000 emergencies within its Brooklyn service area.
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| נשלח ב-15/9/2005 01:37 |
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MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES TWO INITIATIVES TO REDEVELOP UNDERUTILIZED LAND IN THE CULVER EL SECTION OF BOROUGH PARK
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced plans to rezone a six-block area that will allow for the creation of several hundred new units of housing in Borough Park, Brooklyn and expand the Hatzolah of Borough Park, an all-volunteer, not-for-profit emergency medical response organization that serves the community. Councilmembers Simcha Felder and Bill De Blasio, Housing Commissioner Shaun Donovan, Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz, President of SBCO, a Division of Agudath Israel of America, and Professor Elliot Roseman of Hatzolah of Borough Park attended the announcement at a breakfast with community leaders in Borough Park.
''Today, the City is committing land, a scarce and valuable resource in Borough Park, towards addressing two critical community needs,'' said Mayor Bloomberg. ''Through the sale of land to SBCO and the rezoning of the Culver El, we will create much-needed housing in a community where opportunities for residential development are restricted, as well as enable the expansion of one of Brooklyn's fastest growing communities. To complement this effort, we will also be selling an underutilized lot to Hatzolah of Borough Park, which will allow for the growth and expansion of an organization that has been a vital part of the Borough Park community. I thank Councilmembers Simcha Felder and Bill De Blasio for working closely with the Administration and the local leaders of the Borough Park community to move these important initiatives forward.''
Borough Park is a community whose population has grown by 15.6% between 1990 and 2000 while there has only been a 4.5% increase in housing stock. The Culver El, a former right-of-way for the discontinued elevated railway, is a strip of largely undeveloped land running along 37th Street in Borough Park that currently used for parking and storage. To increase the opportunities for housing development in Borough Park, the NYC Department of City Planning (DCP) will rezone the six-block area to allow for future residential growth. The rezoning, which includes two City-owned blocks, will allow for the creation of several hundred residential units. The City has initiated an environmental review for the rezoning; the public review will begin this fall.
In addition to the rezoning, the City will sell the two City-owned blocks to the Southern Brooklyn Community Organization (SBCO), a not-for-profit organization that develops and provides affordable housing in the communities of Borough Park and Kensington. On the City sites, SBCO will develop approximately 80 owner-occupied affordable apartments for families earning 100% of the area median income or below ($62,800 for a family of four). The sale will be initiated by the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation & Development (HPD) as part of the Bloomberg Administration's $3 billion plan to create and preserve more than 65,000 homes and apartments over five years.
''Our community is a community of families, a community where parents, children, and grandchildren often live within walking distance of one another, a community with the highest proportion of both infants and seniors,'' said Councilmember Felder. ''Meeting the unique needs of this community takes a willingness to make bold and inspired decisions. Mayor Bloomberg's solution in working towards addressing two major concerns – housing and health care – is indeed both bold and inspired, and he is to be commended.''
''Creating affordable housing and community facilities in this city requires commitment, perseverance, and creativity,'' said Councilmember De Blasio. ''For too long, the City passed up such beneficial development opportunities as this one on the Culver El site. I want to thank and congratulate Mayor Bloomberg and his administration for responding to the needs of this community and working with Councilmember Felder and myself to provide the affordable housing and services we so desperately need. This is a historic step forward for the Borough Park community.''
''Locating space to build more affordable housing in Borough Park has been near impossible and many large families have been priced out of the market as there is practically no housing stock left,'' said Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz of SBCO. ''The Culver El has been dormant for over 20 years, and today this Mayor is taking action and responding to the needs of the community. We thank Mayor Bloomberg for addressing the need for affordable housing through the sale of these properties, which will have a lasting positive impact on our community.''
''These sites present a unique opportunity for affordable housing development in a community where the demand is great,'' said Housing Commissioner Donovan. ''HPD is pleased to work with the local elected officials and our partner agencies to meet the changing needs of neighborhoods through the adaptive reuse of sites like the Culver El.''
At the breakfast, the Mayor also announced the sale of a 5,000 square foot lot along the Culver El at the northeast corner of 37th Street and 14th Avenue to Hatzolah of Borough Park, an all-volunteer, not-for-profit emergency medical responder with 140 volunteers and five ambulances. The organization will construct a 15,000 square foot building to contain a street-level parking garage for its ambulances, emergency training facilities, and administrative offices. The proposed facility will be Hatzolah of Borough Park's second, allowing the organization to expand training, increase and diversify vehicle dispatch points and improve response times. The project will be funded entirely by private funds raised by Hatzolah of Borough Park. The sale of the lot will be done through the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC).
''This is a great day for Borough Park Hatzolah,'' said Professor Elliot Roseman, Coordinator of Hatzolah of Borough Park. ''Purchasing this land will allow us to expand our capacity to serve Borough Park and the surrounding communities. We thank Mayor Bloomberg for giving us the opportunity and we can assure him that his commitment will benefit our communities for years to come.''
Founded in 1988, Hatzolah of Borough Park provides critical services, free-of-charge, in Borough Park and the surrounding neighborhoods, working closely with the New York City Fire Department. The organization has a daytime response time of under 4 minutes and a nighttime response time of 7-8 minutes, and operates with no Federal, State, or City government aid. Coordinating with local precincts and individual hospitals, Hatzolah of Borough Park fills an important niche by providing EMT staff and paramedics that speak Yiddish. In 2003, Hatzolah of Borough Park responded to more than 25,000 emergencies within its Brooklyn service area. The organization is an unaffiliated offshoot of the Chevra Hatzolah of New York, which is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States, with almost 1,000 New York State-certified emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
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| נשלח ב-15/9/2005 02:13 |
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Just received this in my email:
Subject: Bloomberg Campaign Office
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:55:09 -0400
From: [email protected]
The Bloomberg campaign is up and running in Borough Park, Brooklyn! Our office is located at 4616 13th Avenue (2nd Floor) right near the Avenue Plaza Hotel. This new office will be the backbone of intensive outreach to Orthodox Jewish voters.
We will be concentrating on New York City neighborhoods with significant numbers of traditionally observant Jews in ALL five boroughs. We will be working with other campaign satellite offices throughout NYC.
We have many exciting events in the works, but we need your help in getting out the Jewish vote. Opportunities for getting involved include registering new voters, canvassing, manning phone banks, and planning community events.
No matter what part of the city you hail from, we could use your help. If you would like to volunteer please call 718-633-5333 or email [email protected].
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| נשלח ב-18/9/2005 05:03 |
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The Mayor just left Rabbi Zalmen Leib Teitelbaums house in Williamsburg
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| נשלח ב-18/9/2005 19:17 |
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New York Sun Endorses Mike
From the September 15, 2005 edition of the New York Sun:
The decision of the Democrats in New York to forgo a runoff and nominate Fernando Ferrer as their candidate in November removes any reason to wait on an endorsement. The New York Sun endorses Mayor Bloomberg for a second term. We have no personal quarrel with Mr. Ferrer, with whom we've had several meals in the past year or so. He's a wonderful person, smart and earnest. But we differ with Mr. Ferrer on the issues and, for all our quarrels with Mr. Bloomberg on taxes and borrowing and the regulation of smoking, he has more than earned a second term, particularly when the Democrats are running a tax-raiser against him.
Mr. Bloomberg took office in a city hit hard by the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the recession that followed, and he has led our city to a resurgence that can make us all proud. He won a big political victory in Albany and took on a big risk by taking control of the public schools. He has taken a hard line with the teachers union, and his passionately committed schools chancellor, Joel Klein, has been an advocate for expanding the number of charter schools. He has chosen, in Raymond Kelly, the finest police commissioner since Theodore Roosevelt and has brought the crime rates down to levels that make us all feel safer. His 311 telephone hotline has made city government more accessible.
One of the things we've discovered about Mayor Bloomberg is that he actually has an extraordinarily likable and gracious personality. This wasn't apparent to us at the start. But we began to see it when his popularity plummeted and he was defeated in his campaign for nonpartisan elections. He has emerged as an amiable and enthusiastic cheerleader for New York as a city of immigrants and artists and great cultural institutions and parks. He was a warm host to the Republican National Convention. He's kept the welfare rolls declining and begun to enforce stricter rules in the city's homeless shelters.
We haven't always agreed with Mr. Bloomberg. He was too quick to raise taxes and too quick to offer special tax breaks to powerful developers or businesses instead of offering across the board tax cuts to all taxpayers in an overtaxed city. And if the Democrats had put Rep. Anthony Weiner into a runoff, we'd have delayed this endorsement, nursing the admittedly slim hope that Mr. Weiner would emerge as a genuine tax-cutter to challenge the mayor, though there is little in Mr. Weiner's record as a congressman to support that. But the Democrats instead have handed their nomination to a candidate who has campaigned calling for $2 billion in tax increases.
Mr. Ferrer wants to increase taxes on property and on the transfer of stock, while Mr. Bloomberg, for his part, has begun to steer a course as a tax cutter by implementing a property tax rebate. There will be more to say about this campaign in the weeks ahead. Our hope is that eventually the Republican Party in New York will take a more free-market-oriented, tax-cutting, pro-growth course than even the one taken by Mr. Bloomberg. It needs leaders who can articulate the ideas that have lofted the Republicans to the robust leadership of all branches of the federal government. But for now the candidates have been chosen, and there is no question at all in our minds that our city would be better off in the next four years with Mayor Bloomberg than with a Mayor Ferrer.
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| נשלח ב-26/9/2005 23:23 |
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איך זעה שמחה געווארן אביסל ברייטער 
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| נשלח ב-27/9/2005 02:13 |
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what's the politics in the Bloomberg campaign Y is Mordy Lichtenstein getting sideswiped for Michael Fragin
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| נשלח ב-30/9/2005 00:52 |
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NYC Mayoral Candidates Meet With
Orthodox Jewish Activists
Bloomberg and Ferrer Address Gathering at Agudath Israel of America National Headquarters
NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Democratic hopeful Fernando Ferrer presented themselves and their visions to more than 100 Orthodox Jewish activists who gathered last night at the Rabbi Moshe Sherer National Headquarters of Agudath Israel of America in lower Manhattan.
The Mayor and Mr. Ferrer were each introduced by Agudath Israel's executive vice president for government and public affairs, David Zwiebel.
Mayor Bloomberg and Mr. Ferrer, the former Bronx borough president, each recounted his record on an assortment of issues of general concern, as well as matters of special interest to the Jewish community and especially the Orthodox community. Much attention was paid, both by the candidates in their formal remarks and by questioners in the audience, to the subject of governmental aid to nonpublic schools -"an issue of vital importance to our community," said Mr. Zwiebel, "especially in New York City, where we have approximately 80,000 students enrolled in more
than 200 yeshivos." While both candidates expressed reservations about private school vouchers, each heartily endorsed other, indirect, means of assisting yeshivos.
In the course of his remarks, Mr. Bloomberg announced the appointment of Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott to the new position of liaison to New York City yeshivos. The creation of the new position was characterized "as
nothing short of historic," by Agudath Israel vice president for community affairs Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz.
Other issues that were discussed included the physical security of Jewish communities and institutions in an era threatened by terrorism,
and the special housing and social service needs of the Orthodox community.
Said Mr. Zwiebel: "This was an extremely valuable interaction. We had an opportunity both to see and to be seen - to get a sense of each of the candidates' vision for the future of New York City, and also to convey to them some of the priority concerns on our community's agenda."
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| נשלח ב-7/10/2005 23:23 |
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הטקסט שלך כאן Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Friday the first affordable housing development of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg redevelopment project.
A $47 million building will be constructed at Schaeהטקסט שלך כאן הטקסט שלך כאן fer Landing and is expected to be completed by next summer.
As many as 140 of the development's 350 apartments will be set aside for low-income and working families. Residents were chosen by a lottery system and at least half were currently living in Williamsburg.
''Throughout our efforts, we have looked at to underused and abandoned stretches of our cities shoreline as the sources of new affordable housing, new parks, and thriving new businesses – the keys to a greater New York,'' said Bloomberg. ''Today, we unlock the first doors of a dynamic new residential community.''
The mayor also announced plans to start construction on another affordable housing project at Palmer's Dock next summer to be completed by 2008
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