Let’s face it. 2020 was a wash out. The good news is we can only go up right? Brooklyners – like the rest of the world – missed out on so many great things but hopefully 2021 will be a lot better. And we’ll probably appreciate it a lot more as well.
In
1968 the first black woman (from Brooklyn) was elected to the House of
Representatives. 2021 will see a
monument going up in the area. Shirley
Chisholm will be recognized for eternity in the local park where she has been
honored. Local artists artists Amanda
Williams and Olalekan Jeyifous have been chosen to design the monument for
Prospect Park’s Parkside Entrance.
There
is some more good news vis-à-vis rezoning.
Thanks to the emergency order issued by Mayor de Blasio the Uniform Land
Use Review Procedure (used to review and process public land use) was halted in
March. The two re-zonings currently in
process are Brooklyn’s Gowanus and Manhattan’s SoHo and NoHo. It is hoped these will be certified and that
the ULURP process will begin this month.
