Brooklyn A Celebrates Partnership for Community & Economic Development at Annual Gala

Leaders of Manhattan’s major Wall Street law firms, prominent
corporate and banking executives, foundation heads, elected officials,
and neighborhood activists flocked to Brooklyn Thursday night, November
18th, to help Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A celebrate its
“Partnership for Community & Economic Development” and 42nd
Anniversary at its Annual Gala. The Partnership serves as the bridge
between Brooklyn A and its supporters and collaborators, working to
revitalize and rebuild some of the City’s poorest and most underserved
neighborhoods throughout North & East Brooklyn.

Click here to read coverage (including photos) of the event from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle .

Tom Moore and Judith Livingston, nationally renowned husband and wife medical malpractice and tort lawyers and senior partners at Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore, Steve Flax, Vice President of Community Development at M&T Bank, and Mildred Tudy Johnston,  Williamsburg-Greenpoint community activist and retired founder-director of the Crispus Attucks Community Council, were honored. Stephen Younger, President of the NY State Bar Association and senior partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, served as Master of Ceremonies.

Brooklyn A is nationally renowned for its Community & Economic Development work.  Its CED and Group Representation legal teams have provided on-going representation to a network of neighborhood based organizations throughout North & East Brooklyn that has created and maintained affordable housing, primary care health facilities, senior citizen and day care centers, charter schools, tenant associations and tenant cooperatives, that are remarkably effective in meeting the needs of their communities’ low income residents.  Since its creation in 1968 as part of Sargent Shriver’s “War on Poverty,”  Brooklyn A’s lawyers and paralegals, working out of offices in Williamsburg, Bushwick and East New York have represented, free of charge, the largely poor residents of  those communities and the adjoining areas of Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Oceanhill-Brownsville, Cypress Hills, Canarsie/Flatlands, Starrett City, and East Flatbush, preventing inappropriate evictions and foreclosures, obtaining or restoring improperly denied and critically needed government benefits, and helping to keep families together, as well as defending seniors, survivors of domestic violence and victims of HIV/AIDS.