BrookLyn
Brooklyn is home to powerful people and powerful movements. As NYC’s largest borough, it holds deep Black historical roots—from free Black communities in Weeksville to the legacy of resistance in neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy and Flatbush. Brooklyn has long been a site of Black, Caribbean, immigrant, and working-class survival, joy, and struggle.
While gentrification, police surveillance, and housing injustice continue to threaten our communities, Brooklyn is also where fierce organizing happens every day. From Sunset Park to Crown Heights, Black feminist and queer-led groups, tenant unions, immigrant justice advocates, mutual aid crews, and youth leaders fight for safety, housing, food, and freedom.
Whether through community fridges, freedom schools, mental health response teams, or prison letter-writing circles, Brooklyn shows what abolition can look like in practice. Grounded in love, dignity, and collective survival, the borough continues to grow movements that honor its radical past and build toward a freer future.
Nicholas Brooklyn
A local wellness shop offering quality affordable health and aromatherapy products for Brooklynites .
The Free Black Women’s Library
The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women and Black non-binary writers, a free store, a period pantry, a virtual Reading Club, a weekly book swap, and a wide array of workshops and free public programs
Somewhere Good
Social app + physical “good hangout” spaces in Brooklyn connecting neighbors across arts, culture & community life .
Crown Heights Care Collective
Neighborhood abolitionist organizers building radical block associations, childcare collectives & community infrastructure .
We the People NYC
Abolitionist mutual aid collective feeding 200+ people weekly in Bed-Stuy & Harlem, building neighbor-led care systems .
Brooklyn Defenders
Provides holistic public defense in criminal, family, immigration, and civil cases—combining lawyers, social workers & advocates .
Rose from the COncrete
Rose From Concrete is a Brooklyn-based young people who aim to respond to our seemingly loveless society with (1) mentorship and (2) investments from the community in the forms of funding, opportunities and services for those who may need it
Gowanus Mutual AiD Group
Hyper-local network in Gowanus, bridging residents of public housing and new luxury developments. They organize food drop-offs, tenant organizing teach-ins, and wheelchair repair workshops.
FlatBush mixtape
Grassroots mutual-aid collective dedicated to fostering leadership and neighborly bonds within our community. Coordinate grocery deliveries, a free community pantry, PPE distribution, and eviction defense support.
Envision freedom fund
New York-based organization focused on dismantling the criminal legal and immigration systems. They achieve this through a combination of bail and bond assistance, advocacy, and community organizing efforts. Their work includes freeing people from immigration detention, supporting individuals post-release, and advocating for legislative changes to end pretrial incarceration and immigration detention.
Equality for Flatbush
Flatbush group fighting gentrification and discriminatory policing. E4F supports tenant associations resisting evictions, documents NYPD abuses via Cop Watch teams, and unites neighbors against luxury rezoning
Audre Lorde Project
Community organizing center for LGBTQ+ people of color in NYC, headquartered in Fort Greene. ALP’s programs like Safe OUTside the System trained members to de-escalate violence without police.
Brooklyn Movement Center
Black-led community org based in Bedford-Stuyvesant. BMC runs anti-street harassment campaigns, operates a food coop, and hosts a Black LGBTQ+ leadership program.