Public Advocate candidate Norman Siegel coming to Chinatown for a meet and greet on the street

ON MONDAY JUNE 29th at 5:pm

Norman Siegel will be meeting Chinatown residents and business people face to face at a sidewalk
"meet and greet " to hear from NY'ers in the Chinatown and Lower East Side communities.

We have a chance to see the future public advocate in action, hearing our concerns, providing solutions, and educating us about the Public Advocate's purpose in City Government.

Norman will be on hand to be explain the role of the public advocate and how he plans to place volunteer public advocates into each community in NYC to report to the Public Advocate the concerns and complaints of the people.

The Public Advocate is responsible for reporting the failure of any City agency or official to comply with the New York City Charter.

The office also monitors the effectiveness of the City's public information and education efforts about citywide initiatives.

The Public Advocate presides at meetings of the City Council and is a member of all Council committees.

He/she also has the power to introduce legislation.


Please come and meet Norman Siegel and share your thoughts and concerns about the Chinatown and Lower East Side community!!

PLACE: Columbus Park (in the heart of Chinatown) 10013
Corner of Mulberry and Bayard (on Mulberry) on the sidewalk
Time: 5:pm

rain location: In front of 19 Mott St. NYC 10013

Chinatown and Downtown Brooklyn in for a traffic nightmare - CB3 Traffic Engineer has determined

Community Board 3 will hold its penultimate
Chatham Square Task Force meeting

Thomas Yu, committee Chair
thomas_yu@aafe.org for questions

on Feb. 18th 6:15pm Confucius Plaza meeting room (entrance on Bowery)

PUBLIC IS ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND
Areas affected by this construction taking place over the next 5 years:
Entire Chinatown area
Two Bridges communities
Lower East Side
Southbridge
Tribeca
SoHo
Flatbush Brooklyn
DUMBO Brooklyn


At the next Chatham Square Task Force meeting Brian Ketcham, CB3's traffic Engineer will elaborate on his findings based on his research of D.O.T's proposed plans to :
begin construction at Chatham Square , under ground utility work in preparation for Chatham Square's total reconstruction
refurbishment of The Brooklyn Bridge and adjacent roadways
roadwork on Tillary St. , Brooklyn (immediately on the other side of manhattan Bridge)
roadwork on Flatbush Ave. Brooklyn (also immediately on other side of manhattan bridge)

an excerpt from Brian's memo :
"The City must return to the drawing board, prepare a proper micro-assignment traffic model that will make a convincing case for diversions, and provide backup that otherwise does not exist. This can be done quickly. The models exist from other projects. And the work can be completed before the Brooklyn Bridge reconstruction gets underway. The analysis must take into account that, for much of the programmed reconstruction schedule, Chatham Square will not really be available as a diversion route and that alternative routes must be found to accommodate this traffic."
Brian Ketcham - Traffic Engineer, CB3

Jan Lee
CCRC
Chatham Square Task Force CB3 public member
CB3 OUTREACH COMMITTEE Public member