It’s almost like we could convert two free parking spaces that serve two people for a hundred or so bikes. Why are they competing for sidewalk space?

The participants at my meetings are neighbors and lifelong residents. Taking away this forum is a disservice to the community. Why fight for less means of involvement?

It's also Polish

I would love to invite you to my community board to see all the corruption. Instead you will just stay mad on the internet.

edit: our meeting and hearings are announced here where you can register to attend:

https://www.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb16/announcements/announcements.page

Oh please spare me with this phony civic duty crap. It is justifiable to criticize Community Boards (whose members ARE NOT ELECTED) and the elected Council members who bow down to them to the detriment of the rest of the city and surrounding neighborhoods. Telling people to vote (I do) and run for office (lol there are 51 council members in a city of almost 9 million) is lazy. The CB system is corrupt and outdated and our elected are too scared of them to ever change the system.

> CBs are supposed to allow a Public Comments section at the beginning of every meeting.

Again, different CBs are run different ways. CB11 prides itself in not doing it when they don't want to. They called it efficiency. It is, in fact, the most efficient CB in the entire city!

> There are also committees for all sorts of topics, where you can sign up to present and get resolutions passed.

Stop by the BK CB11 transportation meeting when the DOT is coming over briefly suggesting safety improvements to realize how little the CB has to do with the community. You will see some real marvels that day.

I was so confused when I first walked past that location because it has a chick-fil-a logo on the door and I thought they’d opened some kind of mini store or something.

It’s a great thing though— it has among other things alleviated the delivery people from taking over the public space at 84th & 3rd and provides these folks with much needed bathrooms and a climate controlled space to rest.

Adams claims this guy as a friend and vowed to get the “stolen” jewelry back.

What percentage of society do you think uses delivery services enough to warrant society footing a bill for a QoL improvement?

there's no "involvement" when the "representatives" are unelected. CBs are an overcorrection from Robert Moses and simply exist to empower NIMBYs.

Entitled to what? They are paying for the service.

Are you expressing this travesty to your rep? Your borough president? Those council members won't be there forever. The next one should be you.

Can't they rest at the park 2-3 blocks from there?

You’re kinda out of touch

There’s no way they’ll pass the extra cost down to the consumer? That’s exactly what they’ll do. Uber makes users pay the congestion surcharge if you travel below 96th st.

Oh, they'll continue to get their expensive Citarella deliveries. But they don't want to have to see the poor wretches who bring them their food. Ick!

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>My board meetings are all about getting our council rep to work for us.

Like I said, community boards wield a ton of power despite not being elected officials or being representative of a community. They have Council members under their thumbs for the most part, and especially in wealthier areas the boards are able to kill most public projects that would benefit someone other than themselves. It's a travesty.

Or instead of abolishing community involvement you should take part instead.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/queenscb5/index.page

If you don't get it, see if your CB has "public members". These are like board members, but:

1. They can't vote on the main board meeting
2. They don't have to show up to the main board meeting
3. They are only assigned to one committee (board members are assigned to at least 2), which they have to go to, and they get to vote on

This is a great way to get involved, without the large time sink, and usually increases your chances of getting into the main board in the future. Also, note that the committees are where stuff usually happens. The main board vote is big and loud, but committees are the ones that actually get shit done.

Not all CBs have public members though. So email them and ask if they do. If they don't accept you, you may get automatically invited to be a member, but check with them anyways.

Which you won't be if you aren't politically connected

They president appoints members based on applications. I have done a two year term. I am not wealthy or white.

https://www.manhattanbp.nyc.gov/communityboards/

https://www.brooklyn-usa.org/community-boards/

CBs are unelected and should be abolished

These are the kind of people Mayor Adams associates himself with. I love the pictures of them hanging. So friendly!

They are definitely not stepping in out of the goodness of their hearts. They are opening a second location that is about equidistant from where they put this pit stop. I’m also pretty sure that the number of complaints they’ve been getting means they have to do something to ease the congestion. The community will act at some point is they don’t