Central Brooklyn
Rutland Road in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. (Photo: Google Maps)The battle over gentrification and displacement has boiled to a head in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens/North Flatbush. The early February removal of Tim Thomas, who chaired the transportation committee of the local community board, CB 9, has sparked more heated conversation about who
Flatbush trees
Community leaders are working hard to turn the dilapidated green sheet metal Flatbush Trees into something the neighborhood can be proud of [/blog/art-music/help-raise-money-for-the-flatbush-trees-public-art-project] – and artist David Eppley [http://daveeppley.com/] and The Q At Parkside blogger Tim Thomas [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/] are asking neighbors to lend a
Chappo
February House [http://www.longwharf.org/node/41], photo by T. Charles Erickson Lots of great buzz about several neighbors and local businesses recently: • The Times calls Gabriel Kahane [http://gabrielkahane.com/] a “gifted young composer” [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/theater/february-house-evokes-brooklyns-bohemian-past.html?_r=4&adxnnl=