Investigative-minded Brooklynites are searching for a delivery worker captured in a viral video wading through waist-deep flood water while delivering grub in Williamsburg during Wednesday night’s torrential downpour — hoping to give the hard-working hero a hefty $1,700 tip. Johnny Miller shared the harrowing video on his Twitter account @UnequalScenes after he saw the delivery man’s extraordinary effort to push his e-bike through the water at Roebling and N. 11th streets just after 10 pm. And through it all! @Grubhub delivery still out there bringing your dinner #ida #flooding #brooklyn pic.twitter.com/2baP69JXhW — …
Brooklyn community board leaders urge Speaker to reinstate budget funding for Vocal New York
Members of Brooklyn’s Community Board 6 are urging Council Speaker Corey Johnson to reinstate funding for the local drug addiction services organization Vocal New York, which advocates allege Johnson cut from this year’s budget in retribution for the group’s recent protests. Leaders of the advocacy group claim Johnson slashed $2.25 million of previously-allocated funds from this year’s budget — which organizers were planning to use to pay for a new headquarters — as revenge for their involvement in efforts to defund the Police Department. In a July 30 letter to the speaker, CB6 civic gurus asked the lawmaker to undo the cut. “Vocal New York has a history of helping and advocating for those who most need help in…