72nd Precinct council meets in Chinatown for first time
The 72nd Precinct Community Council changed locations for itsNovember meeting, from the usual Marien Heim senior center at 4520Fourth Avenue to the office of the Brooklyn Chinese ImprovementAssociation (BCIA) at 720 57th Street.
But this wasn’t an effort by the council to confuse regularmembers; rather, it was an outreach effort to communities andresidents in different stretches of Sunset Park, Greenwood Heights,Windsor Terrace and, this month, Brooklyn’s Chinatown, which ispart of the nation’s fastest-growing Chinese-Americanpopulation.
The idea of neighborhood-hopping was a long time coming, saidDeputy Inspector Raul Pintos, who described going to the heart ofthe community as one of his goals since starting at the 72ndPrecinct in 2008.