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East Brooklyn Housing

Past Project last updated April 6, 2009

East Brooklyn's neighborhoods now face both a serious need for affordable housing, and a significant number of foreclosures. Like the rest of the New York City, East Brooklyn experienced a dramatic increase in housing prices from 2000 to 2007 -- both rental and sales -- while incomes steadily declined. In the neighborhoods of Ocean Hill, Brownsville, Broadway Junction, Cypress Hills, City Line, East New York, New Lots, Spring Creek and Starrett City, almost half the population pays more than 30% of its income on housing, and around one third of residents live in poverty.

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Neighborhood Retail

Project last updated April 7, 2009

Policies and Planning in Support of Local Businesses

The Pratt Center is working with community partners on new neighborhood-based and citywide strategies to strengthen neighborhood retail as a strategy for community economic development in a worsening economy. 

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Pratt Center News - Summer 2009

News last updated July 20, 2009

In This Issue:

  • A Message from Director Adam Friedman
  • People's Firehouse reborn
  • Ending East New York's retail drought
  • Coney Island for All yields community gains
  • Retrofit Bedford Stuyvesant Blooms
  • Bus Rapid Transit Goes Public
  • Bronx wins Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
 

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E Brooklyn NYCHA Buildable Area

Map last updated June 9, 2010

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Pratt Center's Art, Culture and Sustainability Project

News last updated January 26, 2012

In the spring of 2011, Pratt Center for Community Development launched a two-year program designed to connect the arts and artists with our multi-layered work, helping New York City communities to become more environmentally sustainable. Supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Cultural Innovation Fund, the Center has partnered with academic and community organizations to produce innovative culture, arts, media and organizing strategies that seek to engage neighborhood residents and artists to promote sustainable, environmental action. This project is a part of Pratt Center’s broader goal to develop replicable models that will aid urban communities’ efforts to become environmentally sustainable -- intensive work we are doing in partnership with nine different community organizations in all five boroughs of NYC.

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Verde Summit Gives Voice to Cypress Hills and East New York Residents

News last updated February 7, 2012

On October 21st and 22nd, 2011, over 200 Cypress Hills and East New York community members came together to re-envision the way their neighborhoods look, feel and work at the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation (CHLDC)’s Verde Summit, an inclusive, bi-lingual community planning event held at the Cypress Hills Community School. Pratt Center worked closely with CHLDC to plan the summit, with sponsorship from the Brooklyn Community Foundation. The Summit incorporated themes that were revealed by more than 600 responses to a Community Satisfaction Survey, designed by Pratt Center and conducted by CHLDC during the spring and summer of 2011, which assessed resident concerns about living, working, eating and learning in their neighborhoods.

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