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August 6, 2009
Hills & Gardens
Boerum Hill’s New Voice
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Trudy Whitman
The Eagle profiles Howard Kolins, the new president of the Boerum Hill Association.
What differs from past Boerum Hill Association presidents’ tenures and [Sue] Wolfe’s and his, Kolins muses, is that neighbors had been motivated by a single big issue in the past. Now there are multiple big issues — Atlantic Yards and other large development projects, the Brooklyn House of Detention, and park remediation, to name just a few.
“But the collective impulse of the board members . . . is self-determination,” relates Kolins. “We moved here because it is a certain way, and people want to preserve that.”
...See Part 2 of this profile next week in which Howard Kolins discusses the big issues (Atlantic Yards, the House of Detention) and the annual events that make Boerum Hill a unique neighborhood (a holiday potluck that attracts 120 neighbors, a plant sale that nets a $6000 profit.)
Posted by eric at August 6, 2009 12:28 PM