Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights

02/20/2017

After our email and posting earlier this month, we received many emails from folks on this newsgroup responding to my offer to set up a CCGH Yahoo group to take the place of this list serv and ccgr…

02/02/2017

We started the CCGH newsgroup back in 2006 when the neighborhood was going through huge changes due to over development, illegal construction and eminent gentrification. As a community group and co…

10/25/2016

Been a while since we have posted. Unfortunately this is not a happy post. From the CCGH newsgroup: An update from the sister of the our neighbor who was attacked this morning on her way to work: I…

01/11/2016

Well happy 2016! From a repost of a longer article on Gothamist, the long and the short of it is the MTA will be closing 30 stations for repairs in the next few years. Not sure of any exact schedul...

09/24/2015

Piles of human waste have appeared 15 times in the last several months on 17th Street near Sixth Avenue.

09/14/2015

The winter location for the Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg will be at Industry City from October 17 to March 27

09/08/2015

Green-Wood has come out against the recent push to preserve the entire cemetery through landmarking -- with an important caveat, though.

09/07/2015

Thanks to the poster to the CCGH, South Slope and WTA newsgroups for the info we knew would never come from DOH. Spraying will commence on Wednesday night, 9/09 starting at 8:30pm thru 6AM.

09/03/2015

New building applications have been filed for a five-story, 26-unit building at 186 21st Street in Greenwood Heights.

08/28/2015

A local man was arrested on Tuesday for trying to climb the antenna at Bishop Ford High School in Windsor Terrace on Tuesday afternoon.

08/25/2015

Do while 695 6th Ave does have demo permits (the only approved permits), they must have a sidewalk shed up during demolition, which of course they do not. Workers on the roof today, unprotected pulling off the roof (Checking DOB for asbestos testing certificate).

Please call 311 if you see the workers. Two complaints:

Illegal demolition w/o sidewalk shed: my complaint # is C1-1-1144892351

Hazardous and falling debris (due to no shed): my complaint # is C1-1-1144898511

First reported by the NYDN, Brownstoner and then South Slope News, looks like the corner of 21st Street and 6th Avenue, 695-705 6th Avenue, is up for some change. Seems the former yeshiva was recen...

08/20/2015

It was a case of young meets seriously old.