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.
