"What you're seeing today is this opportunity for the neighborhood to rally around each other and celebrate the incredible humans that make neighborhoods like Fort Greene great," said Zac Martin, co-founder of the Community Heroes celebration.
Ikim Brown was chosen for his work in the Kings Against Violence Initiative, a holistic approach to violence intervention starting at a young age. He said it was a deeply personal project not only to him, but to his friends that were crowned as community heroes in previous years.
The Community Heroes project... started in 2016 as a simple building block to allow the community to honor each other and highlight the good deeds that make the neighborhood a better place to live.
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