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*** March 12, 2026 - Our Traffic & Pedestrian Safety Proposal is out!

Thank you to our Task Force and all our members for their help and collaboration. We believe we were able to address the most pressing issues regarding traffic and Pedestrian Safety in Park Slope. Thank you, Community Board 6, Shahana Hanif's office, 5th Ave Bid, and the 78 Pct, for their collaboration and support. We hope the DOT can address the most pressing issues as soon as possible.

Check our Press Release!

*** November 26, 2025 - Thank you to our members for helping us feed the hungry!

Thank you all for your generosity and community spirit. Together, we raised $1,000 to cook 10 turkeys and prepare additional food for CHiPS, helping provide a warm Thanksgiving meal to neighbors experiencing homelessness and hunger. Your support helped St. John’s Episcopal Church continue its annual tradition of serving those in need during the holiday season. It’s inspiring to see our community come together to make a real difference. With gratitude to everyone who contributed and helped make this possible.

*** October 27, 2025 "Annual Clean Our Blocks Initiative."

Thank you to all our neighbors, who joined us Saturday for our Annual "Fall Clean Our Blocks" Event. Forty trash bags were collected, covering over eight streets. More young members showed up this time than ever in our history.

This event is a great way to collectively take care of our neighborhood and an excellent opportunity to meet our new neighbors. Together we are stronger. Together, we can make a difference!

***May 5, 2025 Barnes & Noble is staying ! Thank you, Neighbors!

Our petition to keep Barnes & Noble open has garnered over 400 signatures. We sent it to the leadership and recently learned that B&N will reopen in November 2025. Barnes & Noble in Park Slope is staying! They’ve renewed their lease and will temporarily close in July for about 3 months. Our petition moved the CEO, and both workers and the local manager were very thankful for our support and very relieved with the outcome. We hope that our petition was helpful. Many in the community volunteered to do more, and we were ready to do a special event and alert the press. The petition was a reasonable and necessary first step. Thank you to those who signed it.

December 15, 2024: Thank you for helping us improve Traffic and Pedestrian safety!

Our Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Survey has gathered 150 participants, yielding many high-quality responses and suggestions to make our neighborhood safer. We are now working on a detailed proposal to submit to the DOT.

We thank everyone who provided feedback on our Pedestrian and Street Safety Proposal, which was developed based on the community survey we conducted last year. Your thoughtful input and continued engagement help us advocate for safer, more accessible streets — and we’re grateful that so many of you took part in shaping these ideas. A copy of our proposal has been sent to District 39, the 78th Precinct, and Community Board 6 for official review and comment. After that, we will send an official copy to the DOT Commissioner. A copy of the proposal will be available on our website at www.sjpca.org within a few weeks.

October 31, 2024: Successful Town Hall with District 29

Great Town Hall with Shahana Hanif and the entire District 39 team. Our community greatly appreciated your participation. These forums help residents be more informed and help us be more proactive in advocating for our neighbors. The questions were diverse and substantial, and your answers were detailed. We will keep pressing on some very important issues raised during the evening. Also very excited about your office’s willingness to support a reasonable proposal to make our neighborhood safer for pedestrians, cyclists, and car drivers. For neighbors who sent us questions but were unable to attend, please email us at SjpCommunityAssociation@gmail.com to request a full transcript of the #TownHall at SjpCommunityAssociation@gmail.com. A big thanks to #stjohnschurch and Father Ben DeHart for hosting us for now 10-plus years.

June 27, 2024: Please complete our survey on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety.

Deadline: August 31! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LK5TC6K

March 25, 2022 - "Frustrated Berkeley Carroll Streets Torn Up by City Construction Project’

A walk to Berkeley Carroll, formerly pleasant and leafy, surrounded by trees and brownstones, has become loud, hazardous and hazy.

November 7, 2019

Frustrated Park Slope Residents Say City Sewer Repairs Are ‘Breaking Our Homes to Pieces’

Park Slope residents are fed up with the lack of answers about damage to their homes and sustained interruptions to their lives connected to a multi-year water main replacement project in their neighborhood.

November 4, 2019

Park Slope Construction Nightmare Floods, Cracks Homes: Residents

A forum on Wednesday will let residents tell city officials how
a major construction project around Sixth Avenue has
disrupted their lives.

October 17, 2019

Incompetent Water Main Replacement Is Flooding Their Homes, Park Slope Residents Say

City’s water main replacement project is flooding their homes, Park Slope homeowners say, and they want the city to stop it.

Oct 2, 2019

City sewer project causes major problems in Park Slope

Neighbor say a city sewer project is causing water to seep and back up into their homes. They say the city has been unresponsive to their concerns.

Pix11’s Henry Rosoff reporting from Brooklyn.

Sept 18, 2019

Elected Leaders demand answers after construction project floods Park Slope Brownstones.

Councilman Brad Lander, Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon, and State Sen. Zellnor Myrie fired off a letter to city construction honchos to demand transparency and an investigation into the flooding.

Sept 3, 2019

Park Slope Construction Damaging Neighboring Homes

CBS2's Natalie Duddridge has the latest on New York City's damaging construction work along 6th Avenue in Park Slope.

August 30, 2019

Massive Construction Project is causing flooding in Park Slope Brownstones.

I“People have had anywhere from two to 16 inches of sewer water and stormwater in their homes,” said Michael Saunders, who lives near Sixth Avenue and St. Johns Place. “It’s cost me thousands of dollars to deal with the damage.”