District Manager’s Notes

Heating, Voting, Cooling

The city has declared a heat emergency as temperatures climb, a new CB6 cooldown page maps surface heat block by block, and last week’s primary winners are confirmed.

Not that it’s been chilly, but it’s hot and expected to get hotter. The city has declared an emergency, and the mayor has issued an executive order to increase protections for people who work outdoors. Official heat safety information is available at nyc.gov/beattheheat or by calling 311.

I built a CB6-focused page earlier this week, which can be viewed at bkcb6.app/cooldown. The page includes cooling centers and resources, a heat vulnerability map, and, thanks to a mapping obsession and other publicly available data, a surface heat map of CB6. I was surprised to learn that about four-fifths of CB6 sits above the citywide average for surface heat. If you have a chance to check it out, let me know what you think.

Moving on to non-temperature-related matters, I’d like to congratulate the winners of last week’s election. In CB6, I congratulate Assembly Member Jo Anne Simon, who won the primary for the 52nd Assembly District. CB6 overlaps with about half of the 52nd, and she won that portion with 69% of the vote compared to her 71% district-wide. I must also congratulate someone who has held other titles, but I’ll focus on the title of “former CB6 member”: Brad Lander, who won the primary for NY’s 10th Congressional District. 100% of CB6 overlaps with NY10, and Brad received 66% of the vote across NY10 but 78.1% of the vote in CB6. I did a deeper dive on this, and elections across the city, at bkcb6.app/2026primary.

I’ll offer one more congrats, and that is to CB6 member Brandon West on his reelection as the president of the Park Slope Food Coop at last night’s annual meeting. On that note, I’ll stop congratulating and start suggesting by another name.

I recommend reading the rest of this email, where you’ll find things like the just-passed city budget and more. No matter what you do, do so in the coolest confines you can find.

This is the web archive of a newsletter originally sent by email to Brooklyn Community Board 6 subscribers on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. The email edition may contain additional event listings and links.