Our Community

As an advocate for our community today:

• PSCC committees are working to expand the Park Slope Historic District, tame traffic on our streets, promote green roofs and solar panels, support the Buy in Brooklyn shop local campaign, ensure community input in the transformation of the Park Slope Armory into an athletic center, and lots more. (The photo above is of a mass rally we helped organize against a DOT plan to convert Sixth and Seventh Avenues to one-way streets. The people of Park Slope won!)

To learn more about our community based activism on a variety of issues effecting Park Slope, go to Speaking Up.

Our ongoing projects include:

• House Tour: Launched in 1959, it helped save the neighborhood. It is now our major fundraiser, with proceeds returned to the community.
• Grants: In 2007, the House Tour enabled us to award grants totalling $10,650 to 19 neighborhood schools, charities, and cultural organizations.
• Halloween Children’s Parade: One of New York City’s most popular children’s events draws some 10,000 participants.
• A Cleaner Park Slope: We hold our Civic Sweeps twice a year -- in the spring and fall -- bringing the community together. We secured City Council funding to have the Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able workers clean Seventh Avenue.
• Scholarships and Awards: We award college scholarships to local students and present Lovgren Awards to volunteers and professionals who have made significant contributions to Park Slope.
• Toys-for-Tots. Each December, we put out boxes around the neighborhood, collecting toys for needy children.
• Public Forums: Each spring, we address an issue of major community concern. In 2009, we covered the Future of Fourth Avenue, which resulted in our focus on this important thoroughfare. We've also held public forums on Atlantic Yards (the first in the city), sustainability, and traffic and transportation, which led to the creation of the Grand Army Plaza Coalition (GAPCo).
• We co-sponsor Christmas Tree Recycling, with the Parks Department and the Prospect Park Alliance; and Jingle Bell Jamboree, with the Brooklyn Youth Vocal Ensemble and Old First Church. We sponsor two Youth Baseball Teams.
• Civic News offers features, analyses, history, news and photos.
• And, finally, this website is still in development, but our goal is to make it a vital community resource.