Flatbush Anti-Gentrification Activists Want Your Concerns and Ideas

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — Community activist organization Equality for Flatbush (E4F) will host a public strategy session on Sep. 22 where residents can learn more about the group, speak about community concerns and help formulate E4F's future campaigns.

The meeting will take place from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Flatbush Library, located at 22 Linden Blvd.

E4F organizer Imani Henry said the group's activities are focused around anti-gentrification (including the preservation of affordable housing and local businesses in Flatbush) and opposition to what it defines as abusive police practices.

Henry spoke to Patch earlier this month about the ways in which policing tactics, landlord practices and development policy are connected, explaining how (as the group sees it), long-term Flatbush residents are being pressured out of their homes so the area can be opened up to new development and higher-income populations.

E4F is also running an ongoing survey where drivers can document how and why they were stopped in Brooklyn, in order to determine whether the NYPD is engaged in unfair policing tactics that target certain communities.

Strategy sessions like the one planned for Saturday will allow locals to speak about the issues that matter to them, Henry said, and help E4F determine how it should structure current campaigns and whether it should launch new ones.

Pictured at top: the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Church Avenue. Image via Google Maps