Dyker Heights civic leader offers bold idea to NYC

Fran Vella-Marrone, a lifelong resident of Dyker Heights, has a counter-proposal to the city’s plan to raise water rates by 3.24 percent this year. “The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has called its proposed 3.24 percent water rate increase its lowest suggested increase in a decade. I would like to make a counter proposal of a 0 percent increase,” she wrote in written testimony she submitted to a public hearing Tuesday at St. Francis College... READ MORE