Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn is a partnership of  community organizations opposed to the Ratner plan for Atlantic Yards. It is truly a travesty what could happen to our borough. IT IS NOT A DONE DEAL by any means……check out the site to see why there is still a lot of hope. Also, you will find why it affects families so much: gridlock traffic, no additional public school for all those new dwellings, environmental pollution resulting in potential respitory problems, immediate gentrification…oh, I could go on.  But there are 2 upcoming events you can totally enjoy and support the cause at the same time.
Audra Rox and the Deedle Deedle Dees are partnering to do a benefit concert for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn . The concert is on Sunday, January 13, doors open at 3 pm and the show begins at 3:30 pm. They will rock the Brooklyn Lyceum in Park Slope- a club that has plenty of room for wild dancing and running.
You can buy tickets online here for $16 or pay $18 at the door. Or…. best price-$15 paper ticket can be purchased at:
Boing Boing at 6th and Union Street (Park Slope)
Ola Baby at 315 Court Street, near Sackett Street (Cobble Hill)
NY City Explorers at 388 Atlantic Ave (Boerum Hill)
Still Hip at 283 Grand Ave (Clinton Hill)

Birch, Papa Tree and I will definitely be there!

The other cool way you can do to support DDDB is to check out (and buy of course!) this new anthology of essays by Brooklyn writers. All of the proceeds go to DDDB. Here is a list of the writers included in the anthology: (some quite well known too!)
Emily Barton, Susan Choi, Rachel Cline, Philip Dray, Jennifer Egan,
  Colin Harrison, Joanna Hershon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, Elizabeth Gaffney,
  Lara Vapnyar, Lawrence Osborne, Katie Roiphe, John Burnham Schwartz, Vijay Seshadri,
  Darcey Steinke, Darin Strauss, Alexandra Styron, and Robert Sullivan.  And an introduction by Phillip Lopate.

Book readings are taking place at:
Wednesday, January 9, 7:30pm.
Park Slope Barnes and Noble (267 7th Avenue at 6th Street). Brooklyn.
Authors contributing to the new anthology "Brooklyn Was Mine" will be
reading from their work. The authors for this night’s reading are:
> Jennifer Egan
> Susan Choi
> Darin Strauss

Tuesday, January 15, 7pm.
BookCourt (163 Court Street near Pacific Street). Brooklyn.
Authors contributing to the new anthology "Brooklyn Was Mine" will be
reading from their work. The authors for this night’s reading are:
> Emily Barton
> Darcey Steinke
> Alexandra Styron

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