Brooklyn Speaks: Atlantic Yards must work for Brooklyn

Fifth Avenue Committee
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Families United for Racial & Economic Equality
The Park Slope Methodist Church
Brown Community Development Corporation
and BrooklynSpeaks

invite you to a special screening of
My Brooklyn: The Battle for the Soul of a City
Tuesday, July 31
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Park Slope United Methodist Church
410 6th Avenue at 8th Street

My Brooklyn documents the dramatic transformation of Downtown Brooklyn and the Fulton Street Mall, where government policies and corporate development joined forces to displace small businesses and longtime neighborhood residents. Filmed over the course of several years, the film explores the forces reshaping the Fulton Mall - one of the most popular and successful shopping destinations in New York City - and nearby neighborhoods like Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Bed-Stuy. The documentary also follows the filmmaker's personal journey, as a Brooklyn gentrifier, to understand the forces reshaping her neighborhood along lines of race and class. My Brooklyn re-frames the gentrification debate to expose the corporate actors and government agents behind neighborhood change.

The evening will include a screening of the film followed by an open discussion moderated by Michelle de la Uz, Executive Director of Fifth Avenue Committee and panelists Kelly Anderson, director of My Brooklyn; Lucas Shapiro of FUREE; Gib Veconi of BrooklynSpeaks, and New York City Council Members Letitia James and Steve Levin (invited).

flyer can be downloaded here