City budget allocates funds to several North Brooklyn programs

The $70 billion city budget for Fiscal Year 2014 was passed last week by the City Council, and amidst the funds for “storm resiliency initiatives” ($250 million), after-school and daycare services ($140 million), and NYCHA senior and community centers ($58 million), were funds for several programs in North Brooklyn:

  • $1.8 million to restore funding to Small World Daycare and the Swinging 60’s Senior Center at 211 Ainslie Street
  • $350,000 to the P.S. 84 Greenhouse Rooftop Classroom
  • $1.12 million for the Greater Ridgewood Youth Council community center on Summerfield Street
  • $1.15 million to restore funding to the Industrial Business Solutions Providers
  • $1.4 million to restore after-school programs, representing almost 1,000 individual slots
  • $300,000+ to support anti-eviction and homelessness prevention legal services provided by Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

 

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