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Tue, 11/29/2005 - 7:00pm

The Sierra Club and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund along with nine Brooklyn Associations will hold the first citizens' Town Hall Meeting for the Brooklyn Bridge Park.

When: Tuesday, November 29, 7 PM
Where: Congregation Mt. Sinai, Brooklyn Heights (intersection of Clinton, Tillary Street, and Cadman Plaza West)
Directions by Subway: one block east of the 2/3 subway station at Clark Street or three blocks north on Court Street from the 4/5 subway station at Borough Hall.

The purpose of this meeting is to present a real park plan for Brooklyn's waterfront, and to answer the community's questions about how to get back to a real park for Brooklynites - NOW.

"The State planners have hijacked our park" said Judi Francis, a 25 year resident of Brooklyn Heights and President of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund. "They have turned what was supposed to be a park into a real estate development project and they are now trying to rush this development through to satisfy the interests of commercial
enterprise. The community has developed a great park plan that is affordable, is accessible to all Brooklynites, and has the recreational and cultural elements that the community has long desired. We can build that community-developed plan now."

"Brooklyn is the least served borough in terms of land dedicated to parks in all of New York City" said Ken Baer, Chair of the Sierra Club's Atlantic (NYS) Chapter. "Our goal is to help the citizens of Brooklyn secure a real park. The plan that the State has developed, with luxury housing located inside the park, does not serve the needs of Brooklyn, and it is a plan we reject. The community has a plan that has many outstanding features and is the plan we will discuss on November 29th."

Refreshments and baby sitting available.