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.
Brownstoner.com Feb 6 2025 Article Developers want to replace a 1920s Ebbetts Field garage with a 13-story, mixed-use development on Empire Boulevard. A rendering of 73-99 Empire Boulevard by S9 Architecture. Image via Brooklyn borough Read more…
If you would like to view this article in video format please click on this link. Mayor Eric Adams is proposing (for the second time in his term) to change the City Charter. This time Read more…
It appears that not only is MTOPP voicing disapproval of Crystal Hudson and her polices, but others are as well. It has been noted that several flyers have gone up in the community labeled “Greed” Read more…