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“How Tenants Got the Building Back”: Brooklyn Neighbors Share Real Strategies to Reclaim Housing
80 neighbors joined the union for a storytelling event in a community garden.
Getting to Know Your Neighbors Is Community Defense: Lessons from NYC Block Watch
In April 2025, we launched a new coalition of mutual aid groups and community defense groups called NYC Block Watch. In NYC Block Watch, we educate each other on cop counter-surveillance and community defense in order to create and support local rapid response networks.
Life After Landlords: Tenants in Foreclosed Crown Heights Building Seek to Take Over the Property
Life After Landlords: Tenants in Foreclosed Crown Heights Building Seek to Take Over the Property
Crown Heights tenants rally for control of their building after years of no repairs
Crown Heights tenants rally for control of their building after years of no repairs
The Fight for Francis’s Home at 972 Park
At 972 Park Place in Crown Heights, 78-year-old Francis Roberts has endured what can only be described as a campaign of terror waged by his landlord, Yehuda Gruenberg.