Campaign aims to bring Celia Cacace back home to Carroll Gardens
Celia Cacace, a Carroll Gardens activist for decades, has been forced to moved to her son’s house in Wisconsin because the building where she had her most recent apartment is being sold, and rents in the area are largely out of the range of seniors on fixed incomes.
The neighborhood hasn’t forgotten Ms. Cacace, however, and her friends and colleagues are bringing her back for a party in her honor on Sunday at Mama Maria’s Restaurant, 307 Court St. They also hope they can help her move back to the neighborhood.
Cacace, 77, is a product of the old, solidly Italian-American Carroll Gardens (which she still called “South Brooklyn Red Hook”). She also is a product of a time when many people spent their entire lives in one neighborhood. Her most recent apartment on First Place was one of a half-dozen in the neighborhood where she lived at various times – all within walking distance.