{"id":1095,"date":"2018-08-16T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T10:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/2018\/08\/16\/brownsville-and-eny-development-is-real-register-to-vote-or-lose-your-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T10:58:06","slug":"brownsville-and-eny-development-is-real-register-to-vote-or-lose-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/brownsville-and-eny-development-is-real-register-to-vote-or-lose-your-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownsville and ENY Development is Real: Register To Vote or Lose Your Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Development in Brownsville and East New York is very real. Residents must get engaged in order to have a voice with your elected officials, to ensure they are making the right development decisions on your behalf. This means going to your community board meetings, staying updated on digital media, like <a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/\">EastNewYork.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jig.media\/brownsville-getting-its-own-digital-media-platform\/\">BrownsvilleNews.org<\/a>, and most of all you must <a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/brownsville-voter-registration-drive-thursday-august-16-greg-jackson-center-on-rockaway-ave\/\"><strong>Register to Vote<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brownsville and East New York are getting ready to have billions of dollars poured into the neighborhoods for development, but the voter turnout is low.\u00a0 Developers and politicians look at voter turnout numbers, and those numbers give them an idea of how much pushback they will receive from the community when &#8220;affordable housing&#8221;, isn&#8217;t truly affordable. Gentrification happens while you are sleeping, so stay woke, and registered.<\/p>\n<p>Brownsville advocate, <strong>Chris Legree<\/strong>, is hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/brownsville-voter-registration-drive-thursday-august-16-greg-jackson-center-on-rockaway-ave\/\">Voter Registration Drive<\/a> to help residents get registered before the August 19, 2018 deadline.\u00a0 Residents can <strong>Register to Vote Thursday August 16, 2018, at the Greg Jackson Center, from 4pm-7pm.\u00a0 The Greg Jackson Center is located at 519 Rockaway Ave. (bet. Sutter and Belmont)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eastnewyork.com\/880-new-apartments-to-be-built-in-brownsville-on-three-city-owned-sites\/\">880 New Apartments To Be Built in Brownsville\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Development in Brownsville and East New York is very real. 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