presented by the Urban and Community Planning program and Pratt Center for Community Development

Film Screening and panel discussion afterwards with the filmmakers and community activists. Refreshments provided. Moderated by Sylvia Morse, Program Manager for Policy, Pratt Center for Community Development. The story of how a working mother, Frances Goldin, and her neighbors fought back for over 5 decades against NYC’s 1959 “slum clearance plan” that would displace 2,400 working class, immigrant families, and small businesses from the Lower East Side. Forming the Cooper Square Committee (CSC) which evolved into the state’s first community land trust, today the Cooper Square Land Trust (CSLT) is a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the “real estate capital of the world”.