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Page 12 PHOENIX February 7,1974L EditorialsRoad Work New Sign of Local RenewalThe approach of spring brings the announcement of two major public works projects in our communities %u2014 one that will refurbish Flatbush Avenue, and a second that will make lower Fulton Street more passable for pedestrians. We are pleased at both announcements for they are fresh signs of local renewal.The Flatbush Avenue work is a perfect accompaniment to the private renewal that has been going on for months along the Avenue by the Flatbush Avenue-Triangle Parks Improvement Committee. The renewal of this one proud street, and the planting of trees along its borders from Grand Army Plaza to Atlantic Avenue will complement the private renewal and business beautification that private citizens have been working to get moving.The Fuiton Street work represents the first major step in the plan to make the East River waterfront and the magnificent skyline view it affords available to pedestrians. The City's Economic Development Administration is already at work constructing the bulkheading for the proposed park at the site of the old Fulton Ferry. This is another important step in making the area hospitable for future large-scale development.In this issue we also report another installment in the controversy over the location of a floating restaurant at this site. The Brooklyn Heights Assn, and individuals in the Heights have objected that a lease at this time would prematurely commit this i space to a use that is admittedly better than it has now, but which would be too great a sacrifice of long-range potential for the site. The restauranteer has told the PHOENIX that he is willing to move to a secondary site as soon as it is completed, south of the location of the proposed park. This would seem to satisfy objections we hear. Why not simply write this into the lease for the concession?We have a restauranteer who says he is ready and willing to begin operation now and who says he is willing to move to an alternate site when it is ready. It seems to us that if these terms could be put into writing, there should be little valid objection to proceeding. The end result will certainly be new life and activity for this long-neglected historic area.Do you have something to say ?We welcom e your contributions to the Phoenix Com m unity Forum Page. 500-750 w ord length prefered.Send your material to:The Editor, Phoenix,130 Clinton St., Brooklyn%u2019, N.Y. 11201WAY BACK WHEN DEPARTMENT: This is the view in the 1850'sfrom Fulton Street looking south toward Borough Hall, thenBrooklyn's City Hall. S (LI Historical Society Photo)Community Service Bureau:Need Greater EffortTo Help PeopleCalling for a greater effort to help people in trouble, Frank A. Barrera, President of the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service, said in the agency%u2019s annual report just issued that \climate of response to the poor and helpless and a deepening commitment to support services to help them.%u201dBarrera cited the achievements of the Bureau's programs as evidence that social services can make a difference in the way people live.\doubt that when we offer to people services that help them learn to cope with problems, change does take place and life improves. Help one person, and you help a family. Help a family and you help a community. The help you give never stops working.%u201dThe non-profit, non-sectarian voluntary agency located at 285 Schermerhorn Street, in downtown Brooklyn, offers individual and family counseling, care to foster children and a comprehensive program for the blind and otherwise handicapped including job training and placement, recreation, homemaking and Braille instruction, a work-athome program for the severely handicapped who cannot leave their homes, and a free summer vacation camp for the aged and handicappedThe Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service cared for more than 5,000 individuals and families in its counseling service last year. Over 300 children were given help in the agency%u2019s Children%u2019s Division, including 247 children who have been placed in foster homes MnrnFrank A. Barrera President of Brooklyn Bureau of Community bervia, said recently-issued annual report notes that more than 10,000 men, women and children worn hoinaw k%u00bb n^vnMunBureau services in past year. 1 ' 'than 1,000 blind, aged, and mentally, physically and emotionally handicapped adults received one or more of the agency s rehabilitative services.Mr. Barrera said that \Brooklyn Bureau's programs \people to becomeindependent, creative and productive. For the people we help, life now holds more satisfaction, more happiness, more dignity and self-respect. And what they have achieved means a better, safer community arid city.\