East New York elderly fight displacement
Almost 200 residents of East New York streamed into an underutilized New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) parking lot on Wednesday morning to celebrate the groundbreaking of Redwood Senior Living, a senior housing building that will hold 80 rental units.
Most of the attendees were members of St. Paul Community Baptist Church, across the street, and many lived in nearby NYCHA public housing complexes.
“We are critical of NYCHA when we have to be and when it’s deserved, but today we give recognition even to NYCHA. They afforded us the land,” said Rev. David Brawley, the pastor of St. Paul Community Baptist Church and chair of East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC), the community organization leading the project.