Protests erupt following demolition plans for abolitionist house
"Abolitionists’ home! Leave it alone!"
Social justice advocates are pressing forward with a campaign to save Downtown Brooklyn’s last surviving abolitionists’ home from the wrecking ball.
They’re trying to win city landmark designation for 227 Duffield St., where abolitionists Thomas and Harriet Truesdell lived. A developer has filed an application for a demolition permit.
Demonstrators congregated outside 1 Centre St., where the office of city Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Executive Director Lisa Kersavage is located, during a Tuesday afternoon rally organized by Equality for Flatbush.