Testimony last updated August 8, 2007
Testimony to the NYC Department of City Planning on Proposed Rezoning of the Southern Area of Bedford-Stuyvesant
Rudy Bryant
Pratt Center for Community Development
August 8, 2007
Good Morning Madam Chair, Fellow Commissioners.
I am Rudy Bryant, former Associate Director for the Pratt Center for Community Development and its continuing representative to the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford Stuyvesant on whose behalves I address you this morning.
As you may know, the Pratt Center, located in Brooklyn, is an advocacy planning and architectural technical assistance provider to many of New York City's community organizations engaged in community improvement. The Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford-Stuyvesant, first formed in 2002 as the 36th Council District Housing & Economic Development Task Force, represents more than 30 community development, planning and social service providers located in and or serving Bedford-Stuyvesant.