We are neighbors, Prospect Park lovers, gardeners, home owners, apartment dwellers, tenants, community workers, sun worshipers, block associations, neighborhood organizers, small business owners etc. We are the backbone of a community.
In 2014, we mobilized to protect Crown Heights South and Flatbush from the ravages of gentrification: accelerated out of context development, rising rents and property taxes, the displacement of local residents and the desecration of Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Prospect Park. As a result, we, the residents of Community Board 9, made this the only community to stop a district wide rezoning.
We’re now in the midst of using our legal system to literally fight City Hall to protect this community against an out of context development project which also threatens the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Almost 10,000 Shelter, Supportive Housing Beds and 31 Facilities in Bklyn CB9 Review of the Fair Share Analysis (excerpts from lawsuit) Respondent City Failed to Note that Brooklyn Community Board 9 (CB9) has the largest Read more…
Since our lawsuit is several hundred pages, we decided to provide excerpts from the lawsuit. However, if you would like to review the entire lawsuit just click on this link. Summary: In this section of our Read more…
Social Invisibility Has anyone read the famous classic book considered one of the greatest American novels “The Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, who was the first Black Man to win the National Book Award for Fiction. It Read more…