Albemarle Neighborhood Association (ANA) will host Councilmember Brad Lander, talking about the final negotiations for next fiscal year’s NYC budget; other legislative goals, and recent actions he has taken on Kensington’s behalf. Get the inside scoop straight from the source—your city Councilman!

Weather permitting, the ANA meeting will be held outdoors from 7-8 p.m. at 414-415 Albemarle Road.  Bring chair to sit on.  

If it looks like rain on Thursday, call (718) TENANTS to confirm location.  If raining, meeting defaults to the Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center, 327 E. 5th Street, corner of Church Avenue.  (Please use wheelchair-accessible entrance on the ground floor.) The meeting is free and open to all, including nonmembers. Foodtown and ANA will provide refreshments.

At its Thursday, April 28 meeting, the Albemarle Neighborhood Association (ANA) will host N.Y. State Assemblyman James F. Brennan, 44th A.D., who represents Kensington, Windsor Terrace, Ditmas Park, Boro Park, Park Slope and parts of Midwood. The recently passed N.Y. State Budget will be chief among the topics he will cover. As chair of the Assembly’s Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, which oversees all laws on public authorities, and most laws on public utilities, Rep. Brennan is the Assembly’s point person on NY State’s mass transit budget. He also sits on the Codes (jurisdiction over civil and criminal law), Education, and Real Property Taxation committees. 

The ANA meeting will take place from 7-8 p.m. at the Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center, 327 E. 5th Street, corner of Church Avenue.  (Please use wheelchair-accessible entrance on the ground floor.) The meeting is free and open to all, including nonmembers. Foodtown and ANA will provide refreshments.

At its Thursday, October 21 meeting, the Albemarle Neighborhood Association (ANA) will host NYPD 66 Precinct Community Affairs Unit Det. Vincent Galeno and Conditions Sgt. Mike Andreano, an officer well-informed about crime patterns in the 66, addressing the audience’s concerns and questions about street crime, loitering, property crimes, enforcement issues, and the 66 Precinct’s priorities in Kensington.

The ANA meeting will take place from 7-8 p.m. at the Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center, 327 E. 5th Street, on the corner of Church Avenue. (Please use wheelchair-accessible entrance on the ground floor.) The meeting is free and open to all, including nonmembers and non-Kensington residents. Refreshments will be provided by Foodtown and ANA.

The Albemarle Neighborhood Association (ANA) will hold its final meeting of the spring season Thursday, June 24 outdoors on Albemarle Road between E. 4^th and E. 5^th streets from 7-8 pm. The featured speaker, an official from the NYC Department of Sanitation, will address questions about Sanitation services. Again, Foodtown and ANA will offer refreshments.

Rain Location: Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center, 327 E. 5th Street, corner of Church Avenue. Please use wheelchair-accessible entrance on the ground floor.

ANA members and nonmembers alike, your presence is important! And the meeting is FREE. Come give voice to your concerns. And meet your neighbors.

Thursday, MAY 27, 7–8 p.m. at the Flatbush & Shaare Torah Jewish Center, 327 E. 5th Street, corner of Church Avenue. Please use wheelchair-accessible entrance on the ground floor.  

ANA BOARD MEMBERS will be discussing BUILDING COMMUNITY IN KENSINGTON. All members and non-member visitors are welcome (free). Refreshments will be provided by Foodtown and ANA. 

The Albemarle Neighborhood Association was founded in 1973 to create a safe, secure, and stable Kensington neighborhood.

A variety of reasonably priced flowering, herb, and vegetable plants will be for sale at the East 4th Street Community Garden, with all of the proceeds earmarked for the upkeep of the garden.

Located on E. 4th Street between Caton Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway, the garden has had a presence in our community for over thirty years.

You probably know by now that the census is here. If you haven’t completed and sent in your form, please take one minute to look at some statistics that we hope will change your mind….

*Windsor Terrace and Kensington have a response rate of only 51% - 70%, depending on where you live in our community. That means that 30% - 49% of the Federal funds that should be coming here to pay for our schools, police, roads, etc. will be sent elsewhere. Our communities lose $3,000 of potential funding each year, for ten years, for every person who doesn’t return the form. If you have ever complained about any of these services, now is the time to take ten minutes to do your part.

*Total cost to taxpayers to follow up on people who have not responded is $1.5 billion. Every additional 1% of households who do respond now saves taxpayers $80 - $90 million in follow up costs.

*The form is short and easy. It really does take around ten minutes.

Questionnaire Assistance Centers offering free help filling out the forms:

• NPI Computer (401 Church Avenue at E. 4th Street
• The Church of Gethsemane (1012 8th Avenue at 10th Street)
• Prospect Hills Senior Center (283 Prospect Avenue between 5th and 6th avenues)

Telephone assistance: 1- 866-872-6868

Please share this information with others!

This message is brought to you by
Windsor Terrace Alliance, Inc.
Kensington Area Resident/Merchant Alliance (KARMA)
KWTneighbors
The PTA of PS154 Brooklyn, Inc.

You probably know by now that the census is here. If you haven’t completed and sent in your form, please take one minute to look at some statistics that we hope will change your mind….

*Windsor Terrace and Kensington have a response rate of only 51% to 70%, depending on where you live in our community. That means that 30% to 49% of the Federal funds that should be coming here to pay for our schools, police, roads, etc. will be sent elsewhere. Our communities lose $3,000 of potential funding each year, for ten years, for every person who doesn’t return the form. If you have ever complained about any of these services, now is the time to take ten minutes to do your part.

*Total cost to taxpayers to follow up on people who have not responded is $1.5 billion. Every additional 1% of households who do respond now saves taxpayers $80 to $90 million in follow-up costs.

*The form is short and easy. It really does take around ten minutes.

Questionnaire Assistance Centers offering free help filling out the forms:

• NPI Computer (401 Church Avenue at E. 4th Street
• The Church of Gethsemane (1012 8th Avenue at 10th Street)
• Prospect Hills Senior Center (283 Prospect Avenue between 5th and 6th avenues)

Telephone assistance: 1- 866-872-6868

Please share this information with others!

This message is brought to you by
Windsor Terrace Alliance, Inc.
Kensington Area Resident/Merchant Alliance (KARMA)
KWTneighbors
The PTA of PS154 Brooklyn, Inc.

You may have noticed that daffodils are blooming on Church Avenue. They and the trees that they’re planted next to need your help to thrive.

If you’d like to adopt one or more of the twenty trees on Church Avenue between Ocean Parkway and 36th Street, send an e-mail to karmabrooklyn@gmail.com and they’ll send you a tree pit care guide to get you started.

Taking care of your tree should only take about ten hours per year. KARMA will hang a laminated sign on your tree that reminds people to curb their dogs. The sign will list you as the tree’s guardian. You can choose your name or an organization’s name to put on the sign.

Parents! This is a great way to instill civic responsibility in your young ones. It’s also a great opportunity to teach them about life cycles and plants. If you participate in the Adopt-A-Tree program, you can do so as a family and put more than one name on the sign.

Once all of the trees are adopted, KARMA plans to surround all of the trees on Church Avenue with tree pit guards.

If we keep our trees beautiful, it’s likely that we’ll be able to get more trees planted along Church Avenue and other Kensington streets.