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This Sunday, Drink Beer & Fight For Affordable Housing At The Flatbush Tenant Coalition Fundraiser At Bar Chord

From rallying to improve Ditmas Park apartment buildings plagued by horrific conditions [/blog/news/public-advocate-charges-ditmas-park-landlord-one-worst-city-tenants-call-change] to urging legislators and candidates to focus on affordable housing in our area [/blog/news/in-bid-against-each-other-candidates-agree-the-affordable-housing-crisis-must-be-tackled] , the Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition] does incredible work for so many of our neighbors. Th

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Jon Kest’s Legacy Celebrated At Weekend Street Naming

Gathering Saturday morning on Nevins Street between Flatbush and Livingston, where Jon Kest [/blog/2014/07/14/nevins-street-block-co-named-for-workers-rights-advocate-jon-kest/] helped lead a movement to better the lives of the poor and working class in New York City, elected officials and community organizers remembered Jon as a man who worked tirelessly for

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Nevins Street Block Co-Named For Workers’ Rights Advocate Jon Kest

Late Brooklynite, Working Families Party [http://workingfamilies.org/states/new-york/] founder, and New York Communities for Change [http://www.nycommunities.org] Executive Director Jon Kest was one of 63 immensely important New Yorkers honored last week [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/339-14/mayor-de-blasio-signs-legislation-co-name-63-thoroughfares-public-places#/0] during a ceremony in which

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Jon Kest Passed Away Last Night

Jon Kest, father to Jake and Jessie Streich-Kest [/blog/neighbors/jessie-streich-kest-memorial] and husband to Fran Streich, neighbor, Executive Director at New York Communities for Change, former director of New York ACORN, a leader in the Working Families Party and seasoned community organizer, passed away last night. He was 57. He