*The Daily News reported that P.S. 150 has the longest wait list in the city, due largely to demand from Chinese families who have moved into Sunset Park in recent years.

*Police at the 72^nd Precinct think they may have caught the burglar who has been targeting and stealing from Chinese residents who live the 40s and 50s, and driving up the burglary rate, Inspector Jesus Raul Pintos said last week.

*The lack of Brooklyn-bound toll on the Verrazano has some people worked up, including local owners who have trouble parking in Sunset Park, the Eagle reported.

*The weekly park sweeps at Lets Clean Sunset Park! are back up and running. Want to join in? Check out the website to keep up to date.

*Thanks to the Brooklyn DA, Haitians in need of clothing after the earthquake will soon be sporting a load of designer knockoffs confiscated last year from a Sunset Park storage facility, according to the Post.

*Councilwoman Gonzalez held a leadership summit last week, the Eagle reports. She also brought together a group to talk about the somewhat contentious issue of legislation on vendors along Fifth Avenue. Details on that to come.

*Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Quinn last week announced the New York City Waterfront Vision and Enhancement Strategy (WAVES), “a citywide initiative that will create a new sustainable blueprint for the City’s 578 miles of shoreline.” Sunset Park obviously has a good bit of that waterfront. I haven’t had a chance to look through it carefully, but I’ll report back on the details of the plan.

*Picturing Sunset Park: Check out a kind of unusual shot I stumbled upon here, and good shot of Chinatown here.

*Frank of The Sunset Park Blog noted a couple of new Italian places in the neighborhood, and made a well-deserved plug for staying in (the neighborhood) when going out to eat.

*Things have been cooking, sprouting and…shopping…over at Sunset Parkour. Take a look out how her seedlings are progressing, and her note on Sunset Park’s recent meh ranking in NYMag’s list of “most livable” New York neighborhoods. Eh, they can keep Park Slope.

*Got any other news? Send it along…

Though potentially hundreds of undocumented youth in the foster care system are eligible for green cards granting them legal working status and access to financial aid for college, many have no idea they qualify.

The City Council hopes to change that.

City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn last week announced the introduction of legislation to improve services for young immigrants who qualify for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. This provision of the Federal Immigration Act of 1990 offers permanent resident status, better known as a “green card”, to some undocumented minors in the foster care system.

“We know that hundreds of children in our system have been slipping through the cracks and we need to take action to catch them before that happens,” said Quinn in a statement.

The Council’s legislation would require the Administration for Children’s Servies to keep a close eye on immigrant children in the system. The bill could, according to the council,  improve the process by which ACS identifies undocumented minors and helps them to access immigration services. Though it remains unclear how many undocumented children would qualify for permanent residency, the bill has the potential to change the lives of those who do, said Nancy Downing, the director of advocacy and the legal department at Covenant House, a youth shelter.

“Even if you’re talking about 10 kids a year, that’s significant because those are 10 kids that are really going to be leading a life of poverty,” Downing told the Gotham Gazette. “They can’t get jobs. They can’t get education, if they cant get financial aid.”

But time matters. The process can be slow, and many in the foster system do not have key documents like birth certificates, passports and medical records required to complete the application, Katherine A. Fleet, an immigration lawyer with the Legal Aid Society testified to the Council in October 2009.

Once a child leaves the system, they can no longer apply for residency under Special Immigration Juvenile Status. The council bill would apply only to children who qualify for foster care, not to those in the juvenile justice system.

Find more information about Special Immigration Juvenile Status here.