Friday, June 08, 2007

GL's Guide to Elected Officials & Community Board 6

Participatory democracy is a great thing. We prepared this post a long time ago and have left it sitting in our holding pattern. Two stories in the last two weeks--the Battle of 360 Smith Street and the threatened eviction of the Latino Food Vendors in Red Hook--reminded us of the need to sometimes get in touch with our elected officials and heads of city agencies, if only to let them know that voters and taxpayers are paying attention to what they are doing. In that spirit, here is some contact information, mostly for officials in the areas covered by Community Board 6:

Council Member Bill de Blasio
2907 Fort Hamilton Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11218
E-mail: deblasio@council.nyc.ny.us
Tel: 718-854-9791
Fax: 718-854-1146
Council Member David Yassky
114 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Email: yassky@council.nyc.ny.us
Tel: 718-875-5200
Fax: 718-643-6620
Assemblyman Jim Brennan
44th Assembly District
416 7th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Email: brennaj@assembly.state.ny.us
Tel: 718-788-7221
Fax: 718-965-9378
Assemblywoman Joan Millman
52nd Assembly District
341 Smith Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Email: millmaj@assembly.state.ny.us
Tel: 718-246-4889
Fax: 718-246-4895
State Senator Eric Adams
20th Senate District
572 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Email: eadams@senate.state.ny.us
Tel: 718-284-4700
Fax: 718-282-3585
State Senator Velmanette Montgomery
18th Senatorial District
30 3rd Avenue, Room 615
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Email: montgome@senate.state.ny.us
Tel: 718-643-6140
Fax: 718-237-4137
Marty Markowitz
President of the Borough of Brooklyn
209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
E-mail: AskMarty@brooklynbp.org
Tel: 718-802-3900
Fax: 718-802-3778
Community Board Six
250 Baltic Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201-6401
Email: info@BrooklynCB6.org
Tel: 718-643-3027
Fax: 718-624-8410


In addition, the nyc.gov website provides a way to sends emails to a large number of city officials starting with the Mayor and working through a variety of city agencies. You can visit the contact information page with all the links here.

Here are a few emails links courtesy of GL:
  • Email Department of Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster by clicking here.
  • Email City Planning Department Director Amanda Burden by clicking here.
  • Email Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Shaun Donovan by clicking here.
  • Email Landmarks Preservation Commission Chair Robert B. Tierney by clicking here.
  • Email Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Kahn by clicking here.

The CB6 website has a very useful Resource Directory with a great deal of contact information, among other things.

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