Council Member Lincoln Restler

Learn about the rich Arab-American history in BK Heights & Cobble Hill! Join us & the Historic Districts Council for a walking tour led by Borough Historian Asad Dandia exploring our community’s immigrant stories, businesses & culture. Tours: Wednesday, Nov. 18th, 3-5PM & Saturday, Dec. 5, 1-3PM

Drivers who fail to move their vehicles during alternate side parking mean dirtier streets and more flooding from clogged catch basins. We’re conducting enforcement blitzes with the Dept. of Sanitation and the NYPD, and pushing for policy changes, including automatic ticketing with street sweepers.

Long before there were condos in Dumbo, there were lines out the door at Patsy and Carol Grimaldi’s pizzeria. I was proud to co-name Old Fulton Street after Patsy and Carol Grimaldi, who took NYC pizza to new heights and treated all their customers like family. brooklyneagle.com/420814/dumbo...

Then --> now 15 years after I posted an eviction notice on this MTA parking lot, we are finally breaking ground on our promised Box Street Park!

Check out the Brooklyn High School of the Arts’ Open House on Oct. 28 at 6PM at 345 Dean St. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Attention aspiring Olympians! The Star Spangled Playground in Bed-Stuy finally has a brand-new, state of the art running track and fitness area. Go check it out! Much gratitude to New York Road Runners, New Balance, and the Parks Department for building the facility our community deserves.

Humongous news! It’s OFFICIAL - we’re finally getting our brand new park at Box Street! So grateful to the many, many neighbors who fought for Greenpoint’s desperately-needed green space and to @mayor.nyc.gov for making good on this 20-year-old promise.

Had an absolute blast biking to school with hundreds of families from PS110, PS34, and St. Stan’s Academy yesterday! It was great to be with so many kids biking safely to school 🚲

Finding child care in NY can feel like a part-time job. A new resource guide from @ny4childcare.bsky.social breaks down the free and affordable child care options available to families across the city. Check it out and share with anyone who needs it: united4childcare.org

The tree planters we installed with the Horticultural Society of NY along Manhattan Ave are already adding some much-needed greenery in Greenpoint. Thanks to the excellent folks at The Hort for maintaining and watering them as they grow and the hard working ACE NY team for keeping planters clean.

Building, taking down and storing outdoor dining structures has been prohibitively expensive for most restaurants. But with @mayor.nyc.gov signing our bill to legalize year-round outdoor dining into law, dining al fresco is back!

Does it ever bother you that our street furniture is covered in layers of old flyers that’ll eventually end up in the drains?? Come help Northside BID advocates clean street furniture on N 9th St and Bedford on Saturday, September 5! RSVP here: bit.ly/strip-on-bedford

Did you apply to 2K this year? Did your family get a seat this year? Didn’t get the seat you wanted? Wasn’t offered in your neighborhood? @ny4childcare.bsky.social are would like to know Fill out their quick survey to help them fight for more 2-K seats across NYC www.united4childcare.org/2ksurvey

Brooklyn parents! The Brooklyn Book Bodega as a free family literacy workshop for kids up to 5 years old at their hub each month at 141 Flushing Ave in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The next session is this Thursday, August 27th. Sign up here: brooklynbookbodega.org

The Brooklyn Public Library is accepting applications for its 2026-27 Teen Internship program! There are opportunities in books, tech, early literacy, civic engagement, and community building. Check out the details and apply here: www.bklynlibrary.org/learn/teens/...

Last year, longtime Downtown Brooklyn Partnership security officer Nicola Tanzi was senselessly killed. We co-named Lawrence & Willoughby in honor of Nicola’s tremendous service and dedication to our community and Downtown Bk Partnership installed a plaque at Abolitionist Place Park in his memory.

We co-named Willoughby & Duffield St in Downtown Brooklyn in honor of Ashok “Victor” Vora, a beloved neighborhood small business owner. Victor owned half a dozen stores in Downtown Brooklyn & cared deeply about his community. His family continues his legacy with Concord Market on Tillary.

NYC DOT is fixing the infamous Crashland gap in the Ashland Place protected bike lane. But we also need them to fill adjacent crucial gaps in the bike lane network, so we can get to Ashland Pl safely! We are pushing with @cmcrystalhudson.bsky.social and @shahanafrombk.bsky.social to make it happen.

It was great welcoming @governor.ny.gov to Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights to stop by some of our incredible local businesses, including Books Are Magic and L’Appartement 4F, and meet some of our wonderful neighbors at the St. Charles Jubilee Older Adult Center.

Thanks to all the volunteers who came out on Sunday to help fight back against ICE by educating local businesses with @handsoffnyc.bsky.social. I’m so grateful to the community members who give their time and energy to help protect our neighbors.

It was great to check out safety tech on City vehicles w/ @NYCDCAS Commissioner Yume Kitasei. New audible turn alerts are being installed on City trucks & an expansion of intelligent speed assistance that prohibit speeding. These are smart & innovative safety interventions.

Great to celebrate @nyutandon.bsky.social LEED-certified facilities at 6 MetroTech. The new labs, offices, and student spaces use less energy and water and produce fewer emissions than comparable facilities and are a model for sustainable spaces across NYC.

It’s going to be 80 and sunny all weekend – perfect for a park cleanup! Come help us pick up trash in McCarren Park and Popieluszko Square this Sunday, July 26th, from 11AM-2PM. Meet at Nassau & Bedford!

As @nyc-dot.bsky.social works on the BQE deck replacement over Old Fulton Street, the right lane and shoulder on the Staten Island-bound BQE from Brooklyn Bridge to Columbia Heights will be closed 1AM- 5AM from Thursday, July 23rd to Monday July 27th.

Civil service exams are now free for NYC high school students and first-time test takers! Thanks to great @cndelarosa.bsky.social legislation, @mayor.nyc.gov, and the Dept. of Citywide Administrative Services are making it a little easier to serve our city! Find City jobs here: jobs.nyc.gov

We’re expecting heavy rain today and Weds that could cause flooding across the city. Prepare by clearing catch basins on your street and putting out flood barriers. Please limit travel and never drive or walk through flooded streets. Text NotifyNYC to 692-692 to get emergency alerts.

Join me and @nycsanitation.bsky.social this Thursday to talk to neighbors about the expansion of stationary on-street trash bins to containerize garbage from big buildings in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Downtown Brooklyn. Sign up here: bit.ly/CB2trash

Join us on Sunday, July 26 from 11AM - 1PM to canvass local businesses in Bed-Stuy to ensure they know their rights in case of interactions with ICE, have proactive plans in place, and are doing everything to make their workplaces safer. No experience necessary! Sign up here: HandsOffNYC.com/july26

Today, the City Council voted to approve Monitor Point, which will create 662 truly affordable homes, dynamic new green space, and meaningful investments in mass transit and public infrastructure in Greenpoint.

Elliott and I had fun joining @ny4childcare.bsky.social’s summer social to celebrate the beginning of 2-K and making 3-K truly universal. We won’t let up until every NYC kiddo has access to free childcare!

Our street trees are workhorses – they clean the air, mitigate flooding, and cool our streets. Plus, they make us happier. In partnership with @nycparks.bsky.social, we just planted hundreds more across Bed-Stuy and Williamsburg.

Come watch Norway and England face off in the World Cup quarter-finals this Saturday at Borough Hall! They’re screening the match and hosting community tabling & family-friendly activities. The event starts at 3PM and the match kicks off at 5PM. Go Norway!

Like street trees and delicious free IXV coffee? Come lend a hand at the Boerum Hill Green Team’s tree care event this Sunday, July 12th from 10AM-noon! Sign up here to join their regular events: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We’re eliminating sidewalk trash piles stacked taller than us! If you’re in Brooklyn’s Community District 2 – includes Downtown BK, BK Heights, Boerum Hill, DUMBO, Fort Greene & Clinton Hill – learn about the stationary, on-street trash bins and enroll at nyc.gov/empirebins

Trash containerization Streetsblog story: Smaller buildings – with 9 or fewer units – can share a new designated stationary on-street trash bin with neighboring building(s) as part of a pilot program in the Downtown Brooklyn area starting this fall! nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/07/02/s...

This heat is especially dangerous for New Yorkers without air conditioning. All NYC landlords will have to provide AC to their tenants starting in 2030, thanks to our Cool Homes for All law.

Nothing beats sharing pierogi at Pierozek and burgers at Montague Diner with older adults across our district!

Only thing better than a summer drive-in movie — a free walk-in movie at a beautiful Brooklyn park. BK summer movies are BACK! Our incredible parks – from McCarren to Brooklyn Bridge – are hosting a great line-up of post sunset screenings. Check them out: brooklynbridgeparents.com/free-outdoor...

The Star Spangled track and fitness area in Bed-Stuy is finally getting a major upgrade this summer, courtesy of New York Road Runners and New Balance's participation in @nycparks.bsky.social Adopt-a-Park program. brooklyneagle.com/397888/big-improvements-coming-to-star-spangled-playground

It was enormously special to rename McCarren Park Field 2 after Ronnie Ortiz, Jr. Ronnie was a cornerstone of the park's softball community and was tragically taken from us by gun violence. I hope the field will remind us of his legacy of kindness, sportsmanship & joy of the game

I’m proud to have co-named Aldona Vaiciunas Way at Hudson & Evans in Vinegar Hill. Aldona was a fierce community leader & activist, protector of her neighborhood, & advocate for parks & public spaces. I hope the street sign will remind generations of neighbors of Aldona’s work.