Civic festival brings de Blasio, Stringer, other elected officials to Prospect Park
Event Organized to Promote Resistance and Community Outreach
Get Organized BK, a civic organization founded by City Councilmember Brad Lander, who represents Brooklyn’s 39th district, and Rabbi Rachel Timoner of Congregation Beth Elohim sponsored an afternoon of community awareness in Prospect Park on Tuesday, July 25. The event was organized by Lander and New York State Assemblymember Robert Carroll.
“I was so excited to be a part of Get Organized Brooklyn’s Civic Festival at the Prospect Park Band shell on Tuesday night,” Carroll told the Brooklyn Eagle. “This idea for a festival started out over a cup of coffee with Councilmember Brad Lander and I months ago in the dead of winter.”
The gathering brought out a long list of elected officials and community leaders to highlight the ongoing work of the organization and to bring new people into the movement by offering a glimpse of deepening their resistance work into long-term community building.