Sunset Park: Liquor Licenses, Homelessness, BQX on CB 7 Agenda

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — Sunset Park homelessness, liquor licenses for several neighborhood businesses, the city's plans for the Brooklyn-Queens Connector, the community's response to national immigration policy, and efforts to push the city to build more area schools will all be discussed at the next meeting of Community Board 7, which represents Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 4201 4th Ave. at 6:30 p.m. The agenda is embedded in full below, but some highlights include:

• Approval of liquor licenses for Nautical Empress, located at 140 58th St.; El Tahur Bar and Restaurant Corp., located at 4402-4404 3rd Ave.; and Los Tres Potrillos Restaurant Bar Inc., located at 1004 4th Ave. (past Patch coverage of the controversy surrounding Los Tres Potrillos is here).
• A vote on the board's response to the School Construction Authority's October letter informing the community about sites being considered for new schools, as well as the board's general approach to school overcrowding going forward.
• A discussion of the Fifth Avenue Committee and Brooklyn Public Library's joint plan to replace the current Sunset Park Library with a new library inside an affordable housing building.
• A discussion of the immigration committee's resolution concerning immigration policy generally, and New York's status as a "sanctuary city" for undocumented residents.
• Discussion of the city's proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector street car (which remains the subject of heated local debate), and a vote on a proposed speed hump on 41st Street between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue.

Pictured at top: the CB 7 office. Image via Google Maps.