PLGNA

06/01/2026

🗓️ Sunday, June 7th! 3rd annual neighborhood-wide stoop & sidewalk sale

🗺️Event map + sign up links (do it by Wednesday 6/3!) at https://linktr.ee/plgstoopandsidewalksale

🔥118+ homes and buildings running stoop & sidewalk sales and tons of giveaways

🔥13 businesses running specials and an awesome raffle with 16 prizes

🔥24 lemonade & refreshment stands

🔥homespun goodies like focaccia, herb bundles from the garden, free plant cuttings, secret family-recipe chocolate chip cookies

🔥7 activity stations including crafts for all ages, a knitting circle, darning, and button-sewing

🔥artists and costume designers selling original work

📻Stay tuned for details on the business specials, raffle, and activity stations!

🎨Event flyer designed by Stephani Stilwell

🙏🏽This year’s 10-member organizing committee:
Jenn Chen
kd (karen d’souza)
Alexandra Felton-Crawford
Alyssa Fronk
Martha Haakmat
Linda Leon
Vanessa Raptopoulos
Celene Rosado
Melissa Smith
Jenny Ulloa

05/01/2026

04/30/2026

🗣️ let’s talk about it… recently received notice of a City proposal to covert the hotel opened last year at 169 Empire Boulevard near Bedford Avenue into a temporary shelter for 140 single adult men, as part of an effort to relocate assessment beds connected to the Bellevue/30th Street intake facility. Our Assemblymember Brian Cunningham has already come out in opposition, citing concerns about transparency, planning, and community impact. Neighbors are having a meeting tonight up on Sullivan Place and are claiming the City is not complying with the Fair Share requirement, which former City Comptroller Brad Lander also pointed out in a 2023 report. Your thoughts?

04/28/2026

WALKING THROUGH PLG! JOIN US THIS SATURDAY 🗣️🗣️

We know that our RSVP list is full - BUT IT DOESN’T MATTER❕

Come join us for a walk and history lesson about our neighborhood, where we will be ending with a conversation at one of the houses 🏠

WE WILL BE LEAVING THE INTERSECTION OF FLATBUSH AVE AND OCEAN AVE AT 1:15 ⏰

⏰ 1PM
📍 Start Location - Intersection of Flatbush Ave and Ocean Ave (Look for the Flatbush 🌳 sign)

03/31/2026

Community Cleanup PLG is hosting its first annual Trash-a-Thon on Sunday, April 19, from 8 AM to 9 PM. The goal is to clean every block of Prospect Lefferts Gardens in a single day with 100+ volunteers working in flexible hourlong shifts. Two carts will start from opposite ends of the neighborhood -- Flatbush & Clarkson and New York Ave & Empire -- and work block by block toward each other.

Since 2023, their volunteers have collected over 3,000 lbs of trash from PLG streets every weekend. All supplies are provided, no experience is necessary, and volunteers can sign up for a single hourlong shift or as many shifts as they'd like.

Get out there, neighbors!

Volunteer sign-up: https://bit.ly/brooklyntrashathon
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Email: [email protected]

01/30/2026

2500 followers/neighbors strong, heading into the organization’s 58th year fostering - 2026 is off to a rocky start, to be sure, but we’re looking toward a stronger, wiser, more cohesive future. Stay tuned.

01/17/2026

Looking forward to celebrating the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Shirley Chisholm tonight with Assembly Member Brian Cunningham and *77* at Church of the Evangel. This Voices of Courage event will be an evening of remembrance, dialogue, and imaging of a more just and inclusive future grounded in the values these leaders exemplified. See you there!

12/15/2025

Happy Holidays, PLG! Be a good neighbor and please make sure the snow is shoveled in front of your home or business. Report dangerous conditions to 311 and sound off in the comments with shovelers for those who aren’t able.

10/14/2025

HAPPENING THIS WEEK 🚨

Join PLGNA on Saturday, October 18 for an evening of powerful storytelling and dialogue as we screen three short films by & 🎥

Each film explores a pressing issue—local, international, or transnational— that communities are navigating today 🎯

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🗓️ Saturday, October 18 5PM

Stay for an intimate conversation and live Q&A with each of directors behind each film.

10/10/2025

222 Macon Street, by tells the story of a block her family used to live on, but it is representative of the gentrification and displacement that many blocks throughout Brooklyn, and NYC have faced

Like Bed-Stuy, Flatbush/PLG is one of NYC’s many neighborhoods that is experiencing gentrification and has seen widespread displacement of Black & Brown residents 💡

Join us for a conversation about neighborhood change and how communities can come together to preserve their history and protect the lives they’ve built.