Friday, February 22, 2008
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
more info on cb1
http://www.billburg.com/community/board.cfm
There are 59 Community Boards in the City of New York. Brooklyn has 18 and Williamsburg is in Community Board 1 which is the area bounded by Flushing Avenue, north to Newton Creek and the Brooklyn-Queens borderline.
All meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month at:
The Swinging Sixties Senior Center
211 Ainslee Street
(corner of Manhattan Avenue)
There are 59 Community Boards in the City of New York. Brooklyn has 18 and Williamsburg is in Community Board 1 which is the area bounded by Flushing Avenue, north to Newton Creek and the Brooklyn-Queens borderline. Community Board 1 (CB1) is made up of a group of volunteers (no more than 50 persons) who live, work or have other interests in the area, plus the City Council members serving any part of the area. Like a town hall, public meetings of CB1 are a place where interested citizens discuss community issues, monitor government performance, and advise city agencies on neighborhood matters.
All meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month at:
The Swinging Sixties Senior Center
211 Ainslee Street
(corner of Manhattan Avenue)
email to community board 1
Hello,
I am a junior at NYU. My concentration is in documentary film and politics. I am currently doing research for a film I hope to make on local government and community engagement. I want to explore how crucial such things were to American history (Tocqueville described local engagement as our defining trait), why such engagement is disappearing, and of course, I hope to look at people like yourselves, who still make time for this important task.
I was hoping that you might be able to put me in touch with some people that I might talk to about these things. At this stage, I am still trying to understand fully the work of the community board-- what are its major goals, issues, obstacles?-- and also the individual personalities which make up each board.
Any and all help would be deeply appreciated.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns.
Hopefully I hear back from them...
I am a junior at NYU. My concentration is in documentary film and politics. I am currently doing research for a film I hope to make on local government and community engagement. I want to explore how crucial such things were to American history (Tocqueville described local engagement as our defining trait), why such engagement is disappearing, and of course, I hope to look at people like yourselves, who still make time for this important task.
I was hoping that you might be able to put me in touch with some people that I might talk to about these things. At this stage, I am still trying to understand fully the work of the community board-- what are its major goals, issues, obstacles?-- and also the individual personalities which make up each board.
Any and all help would be deeply appreciated.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns.
Hopefully I hear back from them...
Socially Relevant Doc Research
So I'm working on this new doc idea, on community engagement/local government.
I was thinking of covering it from the angle of the community board, which means i need to start going to the boards (both meetings and members) and identifying compelling characters or issues to focus on.
I also think it is essential that I get permission to film them during their daily lives, not just in meetings, since the point is that they volunteer and make time in their (presumably) busy lives for this crucial, rapidly disappearing, civic duty.
Choose one or two boards (complete list at http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/govt/commbd.html ). Basic info on boards (their function, ect. is at http://www.nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/place_in_gov.shtml
Considering bk board #1, which is williamsburg. http://www.billburg.com/community/
http://www.cb1brooklyn.org/cb1_cal.htm
There is also the city council http://www.nyccouncil.info/html/calendar/calendar_new.cfm , which gets paid and is something of a diffferent matter, yet local.
I was thinking of covering it from the angle of the community board, which means i need to start going to the boards (both meetings and members) and identifying compelling characters or issues to focus on.
I also think it is essential that I get permission to film them during their daily lives, not just in meetings, since the point is that they volunteer and make time in their (presumably) busy lives for this crucial, rapidly disappearing, civic duty.
Choose one or two boards (complete list at http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/govt/commbd.html ). Basic info on boards (their function, ect. is at http://www.nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/place_in_gov.shtml
Considering bk board #1, which is williamsburg. http://www.billburg.com/community/
http://www.cb1brooklyn.org/cb1_cal.htm
There is also the city council http://www.nyccouncil.info/html/calendar/calendar_new.cfm , which gets paid and is something of a diffferent matter, yet local.
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