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.
Photos Show the Proof: “Disturbing of Soil” Image one, taken on June 30, 2025, workers are cutting trees. There is also a video of this action. Image two, taken on July 4, 2025, the trees have been removed, in Read more…
We filed an emergency Order to Show Cause to demand that the Developers adhere to the SWPPP regulations and obtain a Storm Water Construction Permit. Hearing occurred on January 30, 2026. The City claimed the Read more…
Review – How We Got Here In 2021 an Investigative Subsurface Study was performed on 73-99 Empire Blvd. One study called a “Shallow Soil Investigation”, where the soil was tested from 0 ft to 2 ft Read more…