Star of Brooklyn: Sylvia Whiteside
SYLVIA WHITESIDE
MEMBER OF COMMUNITY BOARD 18
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Volunteer work isn’t a temporary job for some people. For Community Board 18 member Sylvia Whiteside, for example, it’s been a lifetime commitment. The senior-senior, as she identifies herself, has resided in Canarsie for almost 59 years. She grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but was born in Illinois, the fourth generation descendant of a freed slave.