Fight Against Rezoning
Gentrification Victims Speak Out
Alicia Boyd and Maxine Barnes speak out about their experience being arrested at a Community Board 9 ULURP meeting. Their arrests, at the request of Brooklyn’s Community Board 9, stifled protest from others fighting gentrification, displacement, and protecting their homes. Read more…
Fight Against Rezoning
Alicia, Tom Angotti and Ana Orozco Discuss Their Activism
This is the second panel discussion at the Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement , where the panelists talked about their activism. Professor Angotti at the beginning gave a little bit of history and told the real deal about Read more…
Fight Against Rezoning
What Developers Want for Empire Blvd
What the Developers want for Empire Blvd. At this moment, Community Board 9 members, City Planning and Borough President Eric Adams are wanting the change from commercial to mix-residential and commercial on Empire Blvd., with the idea of wanting affordable Read more…
Fight Against Rezoning
Alicia’s Interview on Inside Housing
Alicia was on WHCR Inside Housing June 15, 2015 with Nellie Hester Bailey interviewing her to discuss the use of 421-a tax abatements, eminent domain and inclusionary zoning to destroy stable Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Community Updates
Transit Oriented Development, Why It Hurts
Definition One of the major avenues created to redesign neighborhoods all throughout America is based upon transit. In some communities these transit lines are created and in others they already exist. This has become known as Transit Oriented Development “TOD”. Read more…