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Community Board 12 Honors Pinny Ringel for 20 Years of Tireless Service

Community Board 12 Honors Pinny Ringel for 20 Years of Tireless Service

By Yehudit Garmaise

Community Board 12, last night at its monthly meeting, honored Pinny Ringel, the assistant commissioner for the mayor’s Community Affairs Unit, for his tireless work for the residents of Boro Park, Dahill, Kensington, and Midwood.

Beri Spitzer, the district manager of Community Board 12, presented Ringel with a certificate that recognized his “outstanding service to the community,” not just throughout the last eight years of Mayor de Blasio’s administration, but “for the last 20 years of Pinny’s service to our community,” Spitzer said, recounting Ringel’s work that started with state Sen. Simcha Felder and with Bill de Blasio, first as public advocate and then as mayor. 

“Ringel’s work is not just a job to him,” Spitzer said. “It goes above and beyond what a regular city employee does: it includes nights, weekends, even sometimes Yom Tov and in very bad situations: even on Shabbos. The only thing we can do is express our deep gratitude for his public service, and we wish him well, and we hope he stays in public service.” 

“I will share this much,” Ringel said. “I am staying in public service, and I hope to continue working with the community board.”

When Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein came on the call to give an update from Albany, he added, “For the last eight years, Pinny Ringel has been making us proud.

“He was always available to all of us here: literally 24/7, at times on Shabbos as well. Pinny, thank you for your service.”

Earlier in the call, in the public hearing that took place during the Community Board 12’s meeting last night, resident Julie Vega, who lives on 41st Street, had asked for help to deter the employees at the COVID center at Fort Hamilton Avenue and 40th Street from “blocking her driveway, blocking fire hydrants, and putting cones around the neighborhood, so they can reserve parking spaces for their employees, which is illegal.

“It has become impossible to find parking.”

When it was time for Ringel to speak, he said that had already sent an email to the Vaccine Command Center, which sets up the local sites.

“I asked the staff who serve the site to please stop the practice of blocking the parking spots and driveways, so hopefully, it will be taken care of,” said Ringel: revealing his efficiency, even as he was being awarded.

“See,” said Community Board Yaakov Kaplan, the first vice chairman of the board. “The fastest response of any Community Board or anyone in the city, right here at Community Board 12.”


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