🎥 Thank you to everyone who’s come out to our summer movie night series! We saw so many of you at our screenings of Sing 2 at Highland Park and the Spongebob Squarepants movie this past weekend at Irving Square Park. Join us on August 28th next and catch The Wild Robot!

🍨 Thank you Lady Moo Moo for hosting our pop-up office last week and treating our interns to some delicious ice cream on National Intern Day! This week as we kick off our August pop-ups, you can catch us at: 📍Knickerbocker Plaza on August 5th 📍Public Place Park on August 6th

¡Hay una alerta de inundación en efecto! Planifique sus viajes de manera segura y, si vive en un apartamento en el sótano, asegúrese de buscar un lugar más elevado. Puede consultar nuestra guía sobre tormentas en tinyurl.com/stormguideD37.

There is a flood watch in effect! Make a plan to travel safely, and if you live in a basement apartment, be sure to seek higher ground. You can check out our storm guide at the link in bio or by visiting tinyurl.com/stormguideD37.

Our pop-up offices continue this August! Come connect with our team ➡️ At any of the following locations throughout the district, you can speak directly to someone from our office about your concerns! Get helpful information regarding free resources, community events, & more.

☀️It’s block party season in District 37! Happy to have joined the Jackie Robinson Parkway Block Watch Association's festivities in East NY this past weekend to celebrate some community leaders!

It’s the perfect cloudy day to call on @governor.ny.gov to sign the SUNNY Act into law. We're being hit by climate disasters & energy bills. SUNNY lets us plug in solar panels and save! ❌Rooftop needed ❌Landlord approval ❌Red tape ✅Energy & savings Let's get it done!

Why is Con Ed standing in the way of a better energy grid and lower utility bills? Record heat means more energy demand and unfortunately, higher Con Ed bills. Battery systems can help! CM Jim Gennaro & I are asking ConEd to drop the barrier to a more affordable energy future.

🎒Registration is open for our Back to School event! Join us at the Lower Highland Park Playground for a day filled with school supplies giveaways, performances, and a screening of Ratatouille in the evening. Let us know if you’re planning to attend tinyurl.com/D37backtoschool2026

🎥Our summer movie night series has officially started! This Friday, July 31st, we’ll be screening the Spongebob Squarepants Movie at Irving Square Park at sundown (around 8PM). We’ll provide the blankets you bring your friends and family for a movie under the stars in Bushwick!

Our July pop-up schedule is coming to a close this week! See where our team will be in the district ➡️ Pop-ups are your chance to speak to someone from our office right in your neighborhood. Get connected to resources and support from our team.

Broadway Junction is getting a $400M accessibility upgrade. But East New York isn’t seeing the jobs that should come with it. Only 13 of 170 project workers are local. Today we rallied because our community deserves better than that. This investment should create jobs for the junction!

🌧️Due to projected heavy rain and flooding, we're cancelling our pop up at The People’s Garden scheduled for today. Check out our upcoming pop up this Thursday, July 23rd at Myrtle-Wyckoff Plaza! Learn about how to protect yourself with storm guide at tinyurl.com/stormguideD37

📽️ Our summer movie night series starts this Friday! Come to the Lower Highland Park Playground with the whole family for a screening of Sing 2, the sing-along version. See our updated calendar, we will now be screening Hamilton on September 25th at Callahan-Kelly Playground.

🗓️Our July pop ups are almost coming to a close. A huge shoutout to our 2026 summer Interns for their work assisting D37 residents get connected to our office! See where we’ll be in the district this week ➡️

Thank you @nycsanitation.bsky.social for your clean up efforts in East New York this past week! One of the most frequent concerns raised to our office are sanitation related and our team is glad to elevate them so that we can see direct change in the neighborhood.

New York City will be experiencing a heat wave from today, Tuesday, July 14th, to tomorrow, July 15th, with the heat index reaching upwards of 105°F! Stay safe by visiting a cooling center in D37 listed here or by going to nyc.gov/beattheheat for helpful tips.

Our July pop ups are in full swing! Check out where we’ll be in the district this week ➡️ At our July 15th pop up at Dance Atlantic, you can catch the World Cup semifinals and talk directly to a member of our team. Get connected to resources, community events, and more.

Our team has a full July Pop Up schedule ahead! Check out where we’ll be this month ➡️ Come to any of the following locations throughout the district and speak directly to someone from our team! Get connected to resources, community events, and more.

Nuestra oficina permanecerá cerrada mañana, 3 de julio, con motivo de la festividad del 4 de julio. Les atenderemos nuevamente en nuestra oficina del distrito, ubicada en el 56 de Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, el lunes 6 de julio.

Our office will be closed tomorrow, July 3rd in observance of the 4th of July holiday. We’ll welcome you back at our district office located at 56 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn, NY on Monday, July 6th.

Four of my sanitation bills got a hearing yesterday! Each one is a step toward our zero waste goal by 2030. Together they focus on: 🌱 Building more composting facilities 🫰🏽 Community composters becoming self-sustaining ↘️ Cutting emissions in waste transportation

Our June pop ups are ending tomorrow, see where our team will be this week ➡️ 📍Tuesday, June 30th (tomorrow!): Stockholm St. Garden from 12-2pm 📍Thursday, July 2nd: El Pulgarcito de America from 1-3pm Share your concerns with us in-person and get connected to resources!

This week, I had the pleasure of presenting an award to this year’s winner of our Participatory Budgeting cycle, P.S.007 Abraham Lincoln school!  They came in 1st place, with 4,765 votes, and secured $750K for a new gym. Congratulations to everyone who made this possible!

We are clear: Expand CityFHEPS and drop the lawsuit! ❌ Money for an expensive shelter system ✅Getting families into permanent housing I stand with CM Pierina Sanchez and the Homes Can’t Wait Coalition in their call to expand CityFHEPS. Let's get it done!

We had a great time tabling at El Bochito this World Cup season and the pop ups continue on this summer throughout District 37! This week, catch the Ecuador vs Germany game at Antojitos Ecuatorianos and speak directly with members of our team about your concerns.

On this day in 1865, the word freedom finally reached the very last enslaved people in Galveston, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This Juneteenth, I am hopeful that the moral arc of our country will continue to bend towards justice. #HappyJuneteenth

Investing in CityFHEPS will prevent homelessness and get people and families out of shelters. The City must drop its lawsuit and any approved budget has to include a significant expansion of the program. Homeless New Yorkers need permanent housing now! citylimits.org/in-budget-ta...

This Gun Violence Awareness month, it was a privilege to present a proclamation to BIVO, Brownsville In Violence Out. For over a decade, BIVO has crafted a community-led violence intervention program that models what crisis response, mentorship, & trust can do for public safety.

The hearing originally scheduled for tomorrow Thursday, June 19th has been moved to June 30th! I invite you to join us as we dig into the preliminary Racial Equity Plan. We’ll look into how this work is going and what it will take to see real impact in the lives of New Yorkers.