We had a beautiful Saturday for the CPN Yard Sale and a big selection of vendors! Thanks to all who participated.

Elections to the CPN Board of Directors will be held on Thursday, October 25th. “Meet the Candidates” Night will take place on Thursday, October 18th. Communications from the CPN Elections Committee will be distributed in the coming weeks indicating how to run for the Board as well as detailed information about the Elections process. -K. Klein

If you’re a Verizon customer who uses a traditional landline in your home or business, you may soon be facing an unpleasant surprise.

Over the summer in Brooklyn Heights, numerous customers, with no warning, discovered their phones no longer had a dial tone.

Kevin Carberry, an independent real estate broker specializing in Brooklyn Heights brownstones, co-ops and condos, told the Brooklyn Eagle that the phones at the six work stations in his home office on Columbia Heights were recently shut off with no warning. -Brooklyn Eagle Read full story here

In January 2018, Mayor de Blasio announced a 10-year plan to close the Rikers Island Jail Complex and transfer its reduced jail population to new jails close to courthouses within the boroughs and nearer to the detainees’ families and attorneys. The plan followed upon the well-respected findings of the Independent Commission on Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, known as the Lippman Commission, whose 2017 report, “A More Just New York City,” condemned the conditions under which New Yorkers are held at Rikers Island. It advocated for reducing the city’s jail population through criminal justice reforms and creating safer and more humane jails, recognizing as well that 80% of those held in city jails have yet to be convicted of a crime. Read full article here

The worst is yet to come! Locals dreading delays when the L train’s Brooklyn–Manhattan tunnel shutters for 15 months next April can expect an even more-hellish commute when the city kicks off its repairs to the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway’s crumbling triple cantilever, according to Mayor DeBlasio. “The L train shutdown is taking a piece of mass transit offline for a very-limited piece of its run,” Hizzoner said. “The BQE is taking a crucial highway out of the equation that also is a truck route. That is a more-complex reality.” Read entire article here

FULL WEEK of literary events begin on Monday, September 10, and runs through Monday, September 17, featuring Children’s Day Saturday, September 15 and flagship Festival Day with literary marketplace, Sunday, September 16. New York City’s largest free literary event features 300+ top authors in lively discussions, celebrating the critical importance of ideas and the written word at this pivotal time in history. Read all about it here: https://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/

Effective September 4, all dogs currently residing at 140 Cadman Plaza West must be registered with management (on an annual basis going forward), and receive a dated collar tag that must be worn by all dogs who have been approved for residence. ALL SHAREHOLDERS should sign for/pick up their copy of the policy in the Management Office on the 2nd floor. (You must sign for a copy whether or not you own a dog.) This policy is available for viewing at 140CPN.com by clicking on the “CPN House Rules” section of the top black bar.

What’s that weird looking contraption on the Promenade? As reported by Mary Frost, the DOT is conducting environmental testing in thirty locations between Atlantic Avenue and Sands street in preparation for the $1.9 billion dollar rehabilitation of the BQE. Opened in 1951, The Promenade comprises the top level of the roadway’s 70 year old triple cantilever. During this phase of the project, “a boring machine digs out a cylindrical bore of material below the surface. Various tests are conducted on the bore, such as a strength test, an exam for chloride from roadway deicing salts, measurement of volume of permeable voids and more.”  Testing is expected to conclude at the end of August and will not damage the Promenade or its gardens. For project schedules, timelines, history and more information, visit the DOT project website.

Photo Credit: SongBirdNYC  -Brooklyn Heights Blog

Workers on Sunday tore down the Bossert Hotel’s tattered awning for a spruce-up nine days after the Brooklyn Paper reported locals’ frustrations with the eyesore and the slow-going restoration of the once-grand lodge.