Super Tuesday, PBNYC style: Take action for democracy tonight!

The Super Tuesday results are coming in … from Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and even American Samoa.

But you can take “Super Tuesday” action for democracy, right now, right here in Brooklyn!

That’s because we’re quickly coming up on our 5^th Year of Participatory Budgeting (PBNYC), the process by which New Yorkers vote to fund specific community projects (submitted by their neighbors) designed to improve their neighborhood public spaces. There’s nothing quite like this truly participatory democracy, in its purest and most community-focused form to make us forget about all the primary season negativity, and get excited to vote again.

So if some of the hateful rhetoric of this campaign season has made you worry about our democracy – you can take a step to restore your faith by pledging to cast your PBNYC ballot on April 2^nd and 3^rd!

This year we’re determined to tell even more people in our neighborhood what a powerful process PBNYC is and we need your help staffing a vote site and helping to get the word out. If you’ve voted before (or even if you haven’t), we’d love for you to take the next step and help us get even more participation out of PBNYC.

Hundreds of your neighbors have spent the last several months diligently researching projects and finalizing our ballot, but the process only works if you participate! This year’s you’ll again get the chance to vote on $1.5 million worth of projects – and the vote is open to ANYONE AGE 14 and UP!  You’ve made some great decisions so far – and I’m excited to see what you’ll vote for this year.

Decide where you’ll vote this year – and commit to taking your part in PBNYC today.

PBNYC 2016 Voting Information:

First, if the letters PBNYC don’t mean much to you, check out this short video to see how PBNYC gives New Yorkers real power by voting to fund projects that improve communities. You can also ask a few of your several thousand neighbors who’ve come out to vote for four years in a row why they think PBNYC is great!

 
Voting Times and Locations:

• Tuesday, March 29th, 6:30  – 8:30 pm
  • Project Expo and Vote Kick Off at Park Slope Library
    431 6th Ave., between 8th St. and 9th St.
• Wednesday, March 30th  to  Thursday, March 31, 8 am – 7 pm
  • Council Member Lander's District Office
    456 5th Avenue, 3rd Floor (between 9^th St. and 10th St.) 

• Thursday March 31, 2:30 to 7:30 pm
  • Borough Park Library (1265 43^rd St at 13^th Ave)
• Saturday April 2, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
  • Carroll Gardens Library (396 Clinton St at Union St)
  • The Old Stone House at Washington Park (between 3^rd and 4^th St, and 4^th and 5^th Ave)
  • Windsor Terrace Library (160 East 5^th St at Ft  Hamilton Parkway)
• Sunday April 3, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
  • Carroll Park House (Smith between President and Carroll St)
  • Park Slope Armory (361 15^th St between 7^th and 8^th Ave)
  •  PS 230 Upper School (1 Albemarle Rd at McDonald Ave

This year we’ll also be hosting voting pop-up sites at popular locations throughout the district. Keep an eye out for a chance to vote in your neighborhood starting on March 26^th.

Out of town for the vote week? Request a mail-in ballot by filling out the short form online at BradLander.NYC/absentee before March 18.

Any resident of my district age 14 and older – even if you are not a registered voter – can take part in the process. All you need is an ID, a utility bill, or some other document stating your name and address. You can make sure you live in my district (or another one that participates in PBNYC) by typing in your address here.  

We’ll be sending out the final ballot soon, in the meantime, make sure you pledge to vote, sign up to volunteer and tell your family, friends, and neighbors.

Thanks for your commitment to PBNYC, the only election this year that won’t drive you a little crazy.

-Brad

P.S – Some of our youngest PBNYC voters have already kicked-off the PBNYC vote this year with a bang. Check out the PBNYC Youth Blog – with lots of good information for teens (or anyone else) who wants to learn more about PBNYC and how to get involved. Big thanks to my office intern, Ilana Cohen, and her fellow PBNYC Teen All-Stars for putting this together.