Save the Date for PACC's 49th Annual Meeting! Please join us as we celebrate this year's successes, honor community leaders and elect a new board of directors. Wednesday, June 26th, 6:30pm The Irondale Center 85 South Oxford Street Fort Greene, Brooklyn This event is free for PACC members, become a member by donating today!

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 a...

MEDIA ADVISORY Pratt Area Community Council [www.prattarea.org] Event: Breakfast and panel discussion on the continuing crisis in single and multifamily foreclosures in Brooklyn and Citywide Date/Time: Friday, December 2, 2011; Breakfast at 8:30 am, Panel begins at 9 am Location: Gibb Mansion; 218 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238 Directions: G to Classon or C/S to Franklin; B52, B48 or B26 bus Contact: Elana Shneyer, 347-853-1553; Elana_Shneyer@prattarea.org Michelle Etwaroo; 718.522.2613 x 22; ...

Hello!   Tomorrow is our last info session on our affordable studios for rent in the Navy Green development. This is the last opportunity before the lottery deadline to learn more about the building and the application process.

Hello!   Come to one of our info sessions to learn more about the application process for our building in the Navy Green development: Wednesday October 5th (6pm-8pm) or Tuesday October 18th (6pm-8pm) Sacred Heart's School Cafeteria 39 Adelphi Street (between Park and Flushing Avenues) Brooklyn, New York, 11205 RSVP by letting us know which date you will attend by email- rsvp@prattarea.org  Representatives from Churches United for Fair Housing is partnering with us on this event. They w...

Please join PACC's Board of Directors as we celebrate Executive Director Deborah Howard's accomplishments at the 2011 Building Brooklyn Awards presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce! Ms. Howard will be honored for her efforts in building an equitable, diverse, engaged, and flourishing community in central Brooklyn.

PACC's Board, Staff and Members, cordially invite you to PACC's 47th Annual Meeting! PACC's 47th Annual Meeting Wednesday, June 29th at 6:00pm South Oxford Art Space 138 South Oxford Street Brooklyn, New York, 11217 (Business Attire) Please join us as we celebrate this year's successes, elect a new board of directors, discuss our goals for the coming year and present awards to community leaders. PACC's 2011 Key Honoree is Mariadele Priest, PACC Board Chair, VP of Capital One Bank's Community Dev...

Property Owners are “Rolling Up the Gates” on February 26th for Fulton Street and Washington Avenue Storefront Stroll Contact: Dale Charles, Pratt Area Community Council, 347-823-5700 ext. 11 On Saturday, February 26, 2011, prospective business owners will tour available storefronts on Fulton Street and Washington Avenue in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant and Prospect Heights Brooklyn as part of the 2nd round of the 2011 “Rolling Up the Gates” (RUG) Storefront Stroll. This storefro...

Property Owners are “Rolling Up the Gates” for Fulton Street and Washington Avenue Storefront Stroll


On Saturday, November 20, 2010, prospective business owners will tour available storefronts on Fulton Street and Washington Avenue in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant and Prospect Heights Brooklyn as part of another “Rolling Up the Gates” (RUG) Storefront Stroll. This storefront open house event is organized by Pratt Area Community Council (PACC)’s Economic Development Department in partnership with Washington Avenue-Prospect Heights Association (WAPHA) and Heart of Brooklyn. The goal of this event is to simplify entrepreneurs’ search for retail space while providing property owners with a means of cooperatively advertising their available commercial spaces...

New York, September 22, 2010 – NYC Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Rafael E. Cestero, NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC) President Marc Jahr, L+M Development Partners Inc., Dunn Development Corp. and Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) broke ground today on the Navy Green development in Brooklyn, NY. A former Naval prison known as the “Brig,” Navy Green represents a successful collaborative effort, guided by the local community’s vision for the site...

Pratt Area Community Council invites you to attend the
Rise Up and Stay Put Home Rescue Fair!


Hosted by KISS FM's Bob Slade
Saturday, June 26, 2010
10 am to 3 pm
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201-5372

To preregister...

Have you been to, or heard the buzz about PACC's Storefront Strolls? Brooklyn Independent Television, a community media program of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn has some great footage on their blog that showcases the benefits of an event of this nature. Check it out and let us know if you are interested in attending the next Stroll on Fulton Street.

Check out these photos from our Working in the Shadows book reading last month with Gabriel Thompson. If you missed it, please sign up on our contact page or on our Facebook page so you can be kept in the loop!

Join the Young Friends of PACC as we make our community greener at our 2nd Annual Earth Day Gardening Event!

Hosted by Young Friends of PACC & PACC Property Management, come out, get your hands dirty, and enjoy making the neighborhood greener! We’ll prep soil, then plant flowers, shrubs and trees at 15 Quincy Street, one of PACC’s newest affordable housing developments.

Before gardening...

March is the month to get your "house" in order. Tomorrow is the beginning of the Firstime Homebuyer Workshops for March and HSBC is sponsoring a FREE Financial Course (which starts on the 10th). check out our event calendar and reserve your spot for both workshops by calling 718-783-3549 x 10

Join Young Friends of PACC for the Working in the Shadows Book Reading!

What is it like doing the back-breaking work of low-wage immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent the year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. He dodged taxis as a bicycle delivery “boy” for an upscale Manhattan restaurant and was fired from...

PACC's Deb Howard (E.D.), Drew Kiriazides (Dir. of Housing Development) and Jon Furlong (Community Organizer) will be special guests at the Fort Greene Association's next Meeting. Monday 2/22/10, 7:30PM, at LAPC, 85 South Oxford Street. See the FGA event page for more details...

PACC is incredibly saddened by the events that have taken place in Haiti yesterday. A lot of folks are wondering, "How can I help?". Well...

-Wyclef Jean is taking donations via his non profit, Yelé Haiti. Text 501501 to YELE and 5 dollars will go toward earthquake relief in Haiti. You can also give on their donation page. Supposedly, Wyclef is about to head out very soon to start Yelé Haiti's work.

-Our Good friends at Still Hip are having a "Haiti Relief" clothing and food drive from now until Saturday...

We just received a trailer for the book, "Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won’t Do" from Gabriel Thompson, PACC's Former Dir. of Organizing!

WITS is based on Gabe's investigative journalism on the trials and tribulations of low wage migrant workers throughout the US. In the period of a year Gabe worked as a...

 

You are invited to the Bed-Stuy Gateway Streetscape Project Information Session for Minority, Women, and Disadvantaged-Owned Businesses! This information session will be held on Thursday, January 14th from 5PM-7PM at the Restoration Plaza in Brooklyn. Pre-registration is required as space is limited. email: opportunitymwd@nycedc.com to reserve your space. flyer

On Tuesday, November 10th, PACC will be hosting it's second home-owner/home-buyer fair at Concord Baptist Curch. Earlier this year we held a similar event and