🏠 Our free housing legal clinics with Communities Resist continue to happen out of our district office twice a month! Come speak with an attorney about how to advocate for repairs in your home, navigate eviction proceedings and more. Sign up by visiting tinyurl.com/D37legal🔗

Catching up with my faves at the Ocean Hill Family Day! I loved catching up with the tenant association and residents. We also dropped off some backpacks for the kiddos ahead of the back to school season.

Thank you @hellgatenyc.com & @jessyedwards.bsky.social for covering the ICE surge in Bushwick and across New York City. ICE is increasing abductions of our neighbors. But Bushwick is standing up and defending our community against ICE’s terror.

🗣️District 37, we’re hosting a virtual Parks Town Hall! Join us online on August 19th for a conversation with @nycparks.bsky.social representatives and learn more about what’s happening in our district’s parks green spaces. Register here: tinyurl.com/D37Parks26

🎉Congratulations to @eastnewyorkclt.bsky.social on their purchase of 161 Jamaica Ave! Rents are rising and pushing people out of their homes; and the few continue to profit off the many. Now more than ever, we need dedicated local organizing spaces to help foster our movements.

🎥 Thank you to everyone who’s come out to our summer movie night series! We saw so many of you at our screenings of Sing 2 at Highland Park and the Spongebob Squarepants movie this past weekend at Irving Square Park. Join us on August 28th next and catch The Wild Robot!

🍨 Thank you Lady Moo Moo for hosting our pop-up office last week and treating our interns to some delicious ice cream on National Intern Day! This week as we kick off our August pop-ups, you can catch us at: 📍Knickerbocker Plaza on August 5th 📍Public Place Park on August 6th

There is a flood watch in effect! Make a plan to travel safely, and if you live in a basement apartment, be sure to seek higher ground. You can check out our storm guide at the link in bio or by visiting tinyurl.com/stormguideD37.

Our pop-up offices continue this August! Come connect with our team ➡️ At any of the following locations throughout the district, you can speak directly to someone from our office about your concerns! Get helpful information regarding free resources, community events, & more.

☀️It’s block party season in District 37! Happy to have joined the Jackie Robinson Parkway Block Watch Association's festivities in East NY this past weekend to celebrate some community leaders!

It’s the perfect cloudy day to call on @governor.ny.gov to sign the SUNNY Act into law. We're being hit by climate disasters & energy bills. SUNNY lets us plug in solar panels and save! ❌Rooftop needed ❌Landlord approval ❌Red tape ✅Energy & savings Let's get it done!

Why is Con Ed standing in the way of a better energy grid and lower utility bills? Record heat means more energy demand and unfortunately, higher Con Ed bills. Battery systems can help! CM Jim Gennaro & I are asking ConEd to drop the barrier to a more affordable energy future.

The Comptroller is correct: We must use city owned land to lead the way. I passed Local Law 99 to add more solar panels on city owned property. Now we must pass Intro 359 to create more battery energy storage systems on city property. Welcome to the coalition @nyccomptroller.bsky.social!

Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine@nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 2w ago

July’s extreme heat showed how vulnerable 🪫 NYC’s power grid has become, increasing the risk of outages and higher energy costs. During back-to-back heatwaves, Con Edison reported more than 80,000 outages across the five boroughs during a two-day period.

🎒Registration is open for our Back to School event! Join us at the Lower Highland Park Playground for a day filled with school supplies giveaways, performances, and a screening of Ratatouille in the evening. Let us know if you’re planning to attend tinyurl.com/D37backtoschool2026

🌧️There is a flood watch in effect! Make a plan to travel safely, and if you live in a basement apartment, be sure to seek higher ground. You can check out our storm guide by visiting tinyurl.com/stormguideD37.

🎥Our summer movie night series has officially started! This Friday, July 31st, we’ll be screening the Spongebob Squarepants Movie at Irving Square Park at sundown (around 8PM). We’ll provide the blankets you bring your friends and family for a movie under the stars in Bushwick!

Our July pop-up schedule is coming to a close this week! See where our team will be in the district ➡️ Pop-ups are your chance to speak to someone from our office right in your neighborhood. Get connected to resources and support from our team.

Broadway Junction is getting a $400M accessibility upgrade. But East New York isn’t seeing the jobs that should come with it. Only 13 of 170 project workers are local. Today we rallied because our community deserves better than that. This investment should create jobs for the junction!

🌧️Due to projected heavy rain and flooding, we're cancelling our pop up at The People’s Garden scheduled for today. Check out our upcoming pop up this Thursday, July 23rd at Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza! Learn about how to protect yourself with storm guide at tinyurl.com/stormguideD37

📽️ Our summer movie night series starts this Friday! Come to the Lower Highland Park Playground with the whole family for a screening of Sing 2, the sing-along version. See our updated calendar, we will now be screening Hamilton on September 25th at Callahan-Kelly Playground.

🗓️Our July pop ups are almost coming to a close. A huge shoutout to our 2026 summer Interns for their work assisting D37 residents get connected to our office! See where we’ll be in the district this week ➡️

Thank you @nycsanitation.bsky.social for your clean up efforts in East New York this past week! One of the most frequent concerns raised to our office are sanitation related and our team is glad to elevate them so that we can see direct change in the neighborhood.

New York City will be experiencing a heat wave from today, Tuesday, July 14th, to tomorrow, July 15th, with the heat index reaching upwards of 105°F! Stay safe by visiting a cooling center in D37 listed here or by going to nyc.gov/beattheheat for helpful tips.

Our July pop ups are in full swing! Check out where we’ll be in the district this week ➡️ At our July 15th pop up at Dance Atlantic, you can catch the World Cup semifinals and talk directly to a member of our team. Get connected to resources, community events, and more.

Our team has a full July Pop Up schedule ahead! Check out where we’ll be this month ➡️ Come to any of the following locations throughout the district and speak directly to someone from our team! Get connected to resources, community events, and more.

Our office will be closed tomorrow, July 3rd in observance of the 4th of July holiday. We’ll welcome you back at our district office located at 56 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn, NY on Monday, July 6th.

Four of my sanitation bills got a hearing yesterday! Each one is a step toward our zero waste goal by 2030. Together they focus on: 🌱 Building more composting facilities 🫰🏽 Community composters becoming self-sustaining ↘️ Cutting emissions in waste transportation

NYC will be under a heat wave from Wednesday, July 1st through the holiday weekend until Sunday, 7/5 with the heat index reaching upwards of 109°F! Extreme heat can be life threatening, stay safe by visiting a cooling center or going to nyc.gov/beattheheat for helpful tips.

Our June pop ups are ending tomorrow, see where our team will be this week ➡️ 📍Tuesday, June 30th (tomorrow!): Stockholm St. Garden from 12-2pm 📍Thursday, July 2nd: El Pulgarcito de America from 1-3pm Share your concerns with us in-person and get connected to resources!

This week, I had the pleasure of presenting an award to this year’s winner of our Participatory Budgeting cycle, P.S.007 Abraham Lincoln school!  They came in 1st place, with 4,765 votes, and secured $750K for a new gym. Congratulations to everyone who made this possible!