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📌 Cable Makeover! Verrazzano Bridge Gets a $249M Spa Day!

👉Your Voice, Your Budget! Help Shape the Future of Flatbush, Midwood & Kensington!

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🌉💨 Cable Makeover! Verrazzano Bridge Gets a $249M Spa Day! 💰🔧

Hold on to your steering wheels, Staten Islanders and Brooklynites — the iconic Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is getting a much-needed glow-up! 💅🚘 The MTA just greenlit a whopping $249 million rehab project to freshen up the 60-year-old span that carries over 220,000 vehicles every day. The star of the show? A futuristic dehumidification system designed to keep those all-important steel cables dry, strong, and corrosion-free for decades to come. Think of it as Botox for bridges — fighting off aging one wire at a time! 💦🧰

Why the spa treatment now? Turns out, humidity has been sneaking in and rusting the cables from the inside — not exactly what you want holding up a two-decker bridge! MTA officials say the new system will drop humidity inside the cables to below 40% and keep it there, helping extend the bridge’s life and keeping it in "bridge-body" shape. 🏗️🫧 The tech is already making waves on the RFK Bridge, and now it’s Verrazzano’s turn to shine. The makeover, led by Skanska Koch, Inc., also includes cable monitoring, inspections, and some hardware upgrades. Completion is expected in about four years — just in time for the bridge’s next big birthday bash! 🎂🎈

Stay tuned for lane closures, progress updates, and maybe a few bridge selfies along the way — because this steel legend is getting its groove back! 📸🛠️

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🗽 Civic Spotlight: Keeping You Informed

🗳️💡 Your Voice, Your Budget! Help Shape the Future of Flatbush, Midwood & Kensington! 💰🌳

Got ideas for better parks? Safer streets? Community spaces that actually spark joy? Now’s your chance to make them real! Brooklyn Community Board 14 (serving Flatbush, Midwood, and part of Kensington) is officially asking you to weigh in on what our neighborhood needs most in the city budget — and yes, your ideas do matter! 💬✨

Whether it's a brand new rec center, updated tech for our local schools, or safer crossings for Ocean Parkway 🚸, this is your opportunity to recommend projects worth $35K+ that could stick around for years to come. Fill out the online survey or download the PDF by Friday, September 5, 2025, and your suggestions could be part of CB14’s official budget hearing on Monday, September 8 at 6:45 PM at the East Midwood Jewish Center. 🗂️📅

So let your inner city planner shine! 🏙️ Take five minutes, share your bright ideas, and help build a better Brooklyn — one budget line at a time. 🧾📣 More info here

📅Calendar

 Friday 7/4/2025 Alternate Side Parking Suspensions
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🎬 Events 👋

Friday 7/4/2025

Hakhel Yarchei Kallah | Agudah of Madison | 2122 Ave. S (Ave S & East 22) |

9:00 am | R’ Dovid Goldwasser | A time of War * A Time of Peace

10:00 am | R’ Eliyahu Schneider | Our Special Avodah in These Amazing Times

11:00 am | R’ Dovid Ribiat | The Halachos of Shidduchim

Tuesday 7/8/2025

👩For girls only 👩 | Girls Summer Coding Class | JCCMP | 3415 Quentin Road (b/w E. 34 & E 35) | 6:30 PM - Runs for 4 weeks| Non-members $50/Members $36 | More info here

Sunday 7/13/2025 - שבעה עשר בתמוז

Finding Meaning in These Three Weeks | Merkaz HaSimcha | 1898 Bay Ave (corner E. 19 near M)

2:30 pm | R’ Shay Tahan

3:15 pm | R’ Elya Brudny

4:00 pm | R’ Shmuel Dishon

Tuesday 7/22/2025

👩For women only 👩 | The Hike Walnut Mountain State Park Liberty NY | A Women’s Day out to benefit Bonei Olam | For more info click here

Motzaei Shabbos 8/2/2025 תשעה באב

Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin Elementary School Hall | 911 E.13 St. (corner Ave I) | Admission $12

10:30 pm | R’ Simcha Scholar

Sunday 8/3/2025 תשעה באב

Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin Elementary School Hall | 911 E.13 St. (corner Ave I) | Admission $12

1:00 pm | R’ Shmuel Yaakov Klein (followed by Mincha)

2:15 pm | R’ Daniel Glatstein

3:00 pm | R’ Yosef Viener

3:45 pm | R’ Ruven Schmelczer

4:30 pm | R’ Alter Shmuel Greenberg

5:15 pm | R’ Moshe Tuvia Lieff

6:00 pm R’ Moshe Elefant

6:45 pm | R’ Avrum Y. Heschel

7:20 pm | R’ Hershel Zolty

8:00 pm | R’ Fishel Schachter

8:45 pm | Maariv

Lectures 🎤

⌛Ongoing🗓️

Monday’s & Wednesday’s

AharoHaRav n Kahn Shlita | Shiur on Tehillim with Medrash and Meforshim | 10:40am | Kol Halashon 718-906-6400 press star (*) | Live stream click here.

Thursday’s

Parsha In-Depth with Meforshim | Rav Yerachmiel Frankel | Knesses Bais Avigdor | 1720 Avenue J (Btw E17 & E18) | 11:30 am

📖Learning and Cholent🍲😋 | Bet Shaul U'Miriam | 2208 Ave. S | 8:00-10:00pm🏆

📜 Mishmar | Agudah of Madison | 2122 Ave. S (Ave S & East 22) | 10:00 pm

📖Parsha Ha’Shavua | Rabbi Frand | Y.I. of Midwood | 1694 Ocean Ave | 9:00 pm

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 📰 Weather 🥸

⛈️Tuesday | A chance of showers and thunderstorms ☔️| Mostly cloudy, with a high near 89.

⛈️Tuesday Night | Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 74.

🌧️Wednesday | A 30 percent chance of showers before 8am | Partly sunny, with a high near 87.

Wednesday Night | Mostly clear, with a low around 72.

🌞Thursday | Mostly sunny, with a high near 88.

🌤️Thursday Night | Partly cloudy, with a low around 70.

🌞Independence Day | Sunny, with a high near 84.

Friday Night | Mostly clear, with a low around 68.

National Weather Service

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