Events
Please Join us for:
CBID’s 43rd Anniversary Dinner
Sunday, March 4, 2012
5:00 Cocktails
6:00 Dinner & Awards
Sumptuous Buffet & Open Bar
Dance to the Sounds of Moondance Music
Valet Parking
The Grand Prospect Hall
263 Prospect Ave. (between 5th & 6th ave.)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Honoring:
Congressman Jerry Nadler
Michael Cairl
Charlie Davis
Fifth Avenue Committee
Bazah Roohi
John Samuelsen
Tickets: $100
Table of 10: $800
To place an ad in our commemorative journal:
Gold Page $400
Full Page $300
Half Page $175
Third Page $125
Listing $40
Please make your check payable to CBID & mail to:
CBID’s 43rd Annual Dinner
C/O Marty Bernstein
476 10th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Artwork/copy may be provided by emailing art, text, jpegs, and/or documents to:
Marty Bernstein
dinner@cbidems.org
please indicate the size of your AD
Journal DEADLINE is Friday, February 24th
More info: Marty Bernstein, phone: 718.788.8698
Congressman Jerry Nadler
Congressman Jerrold “Jerry” Nadler has represented the Eighth Congressional District of New York, which includes much of the West Side of Manhattan, the Financial District and a number of neighborhoods in southwestern Brooklyn, since 1992. He began his political career in 1976 in the New York State Assembly, where he served for 16 years.
Throughout his career, Rep. Nadler has been a champion of civil liberties, civil rights (including women’s and LGBT rights), safe and efficient transportation, and a host of progressive issues such as access to health care, support for the arts and protection of the Social Security system. He is considered an unapologetic defender of those who might otherwise be forgotten by the legal system or the economy and is especially respected for his creative and pragmatic legislative approaches to problems. He also has particular expertise and policymaking prominence on issues facing Israel and the Middle East.
Rep. Nadler is a major advocate for increased funding of New York’s mass transit system, better subway service and a more intelligent regional goods movement policy. Rep. Nadler has also worked tirelessly to aid the rebuilding of Ground Zero and to see addressed the health and environmental impacts of the collapse of the World Trade Center on first responders and area residents, workers and students.
Rep. Nadler is a graduate of Crown Heights Yeshiva, Stuyvesant High School, Columbia University and Fordham Law School. He lives on the West Side of Manhattan with his wife, Joyce Miller. They have one son, Michael.
Michael Cairl
Michael Cairl is a native of Park Slope. He has been the Park Slope Civic Council’s President since 2010 and on the Board since 2007; he was the Chair of its Livable Streets Committee from 2007 – 2010. He is also one of the founders of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition and is the Chair of its Design Initiatives Committee. Michael is the Chair of the Gowanus Community Stakeholder Group, which has advocated for replacing the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel, a Board Member and the Treasurer of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, a member of the Advisory Board of UPROSE, a community organization in Sunset Park, and is on the Advisory Board of a new non-profit called Pull 4 Parkinson’s. Michael is a former Chair of the Board of Trustees of Park Slope United Methodist Church and is the Secretary of its Church Council. He is the Recording Secretary of Lambda Independent Democrats.
He works as a consultant on mass transit projects and is presently involved with new light rail lines in Norfolk, Virginia and Salt Lake City, Utah, as well as rail projects in New Jersey and New York. In his spare time, Michael likes to enjoy a cocktail or two with his partner Jim and biking all over New York City.
Charlie Davis
Charlie Davis has been active in the labor movement for much of his 81 years. He has been a union organizer throughout the country as well as working on numerous labor education projects. Particularly memorable for Davis was his experience trying to organize women workers in a garment factory in south Texas. Most recently, he was Treasurer of his division and Shop Steward of the Brooklyn office of the Public Employee Federation (PEF) of New York State.
A CBID member for over 20 years, Davis is especially proud of his role in working to elect Congresswomen Nydia Velazquez who defeated long-time incumbent Stephen Solarz.
In addition to his labor related work and stints as a sign painter’s helper, window decorator, stock and shipping clerk in a screw factory, and Army of U.S. draftee, Davis also found time to get a PhD writing his thesis on a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of teacher’s unions in the US, Great Britain, and Italy.
Fifth Avenue Committee
Fifth Avenue Committee, Inc. (FAC) is a community organization in South Brooklyn that advances economic and social justice by building vibrant, diverse communities where residents have genuine opportunities to achieve their goals, as well as the power to shape the community’s future.
FAC is a nationally-recognized nonprofit community development corporation formed in 1978 that works to transform the lives of over 5,000 low- and moderate-income New Yorkers annually so that we can all live and work with dignity and respect while making our community more equitable, sustainable, inclusive, and just.
To achieve its mission, FAC develops and manages affordable housing and community facilities, creates economic opportunities and ensures access to economic stability, organizes residents and workers, offers student-centered adult education, and combats displacement caused by gentrification.
Bazah Roohi
Bazah Roohi is the President and founder of American Council of Minority Women (ACMW). ACMW was established in July 2005 with a focus on the empowerment of women in the South Asian community in Brooklyn and the promotion of human rights bother domestically and abroad – especially in Pakistan.
Among ACMW’s activities are the formation of women’s groups to promote collective responses to common problems faced by South Asian women in Brooklyn, holding seminars regarding legal rights particularly around domestic violence issues, the establishment of an adult literacy center, a food pantry program, and the annual Chand Raat Bazzar or “fun fair’” initiated in 2009 – a celebration of end of the holy month of Ramadan where local women are invited to have stalls to sell their handicrafts and food.
ACMW also collected donations and food cans for earthquake victims in Haiti, during Hurricane Irene provided food and shelter to 10 families affected by the storm, and collected food and clothing donations in 2009 for flood and earthquake victims in Pakistan.
John Samuelsen
John Samuelsen is the President of Transport Workers Union, Local 100 which represents 38,000 subway and bus workers mostly in New York City and 26,000 retirees. John began his career with the union in 1993 as a track inspector with the New York City Transit Authority. From 2002 to 2005 he was the lead negotiator for the Union on all safety related issues in contractual bargaining between Local 100 and the Transit Authority. In 2004, he authored the Comprehensive Track Safety Bill, passed by both house of the legislature. John was elected President of the Local 100 in 2010 and is leading the union in demanding fair treatment for transit workers and their families, adequate funding for public transportation in New York City, and a safe, clean, and secure system for workers and riders.
John, a lifelong Brooklyn resident, lives with his wife and three children.