"In January, the Chicago Tribune profiled Brooklyn: Its founding in the early 1830s as a refuge for free and enslaved Black people. Its days as a thriving entertainment hub. Its eventual decline in the second half of the 20th century and the disparate group of archaeologists, urban planners, preservationists, current residents and former Brooklynites at the center of an ambitious revitalization plan."
"There have been plenty of reasons for anxiety, and some signs of hope, in Brooklyn this year as community members and supporters fight to stave off the city's demise and preserve its legacy as America's oldest Black town. In January, the Chicago Tribune profiled Brooklyn: Its founding in the early 1830s as a refuge for free and enslaved Black people. Its days as a thriving entertainment hub."
Brooklyn's brick building at Madison and South 5th streets remains vacant, boarded and tagged with faded gang graffiti. The building was slated twice for a $2.5 million federal-funded conversion into a community center, but the project has stalled amid partisan spending battles and the looming threat of a government shutdown. The delay deprives a small town of scarce resources and creates anxiety. Residents, preservationists, archaeologists, urban planners and former residents are pursuing a revitalization plan to stave off the city's decline and preserve Brooklyn's legacy as an early-1830s refuge for free and enslaved Black people, including proposals for a visitor center and museum.
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