The movement to save the Downtown Brooklyn house of two abolitionists
Advocates are making a last-ditch effort to stop the demolition of a Downtown Brooklyn house where prominent abolitionists Thomas and Harriet Truesdell once lived.
The Circle for Justice Innovations launched a petition urging the city Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate 227 Duffield St. as a landmark.
This would protect the 19th-century house — which the petition calls “the last known standing historic site in Brooklyn where well-known Abolitionists lived and where people found freedom through the Underground Railroad” — from being torn down.