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Happy Juneteenth! ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏿🖤🌱

freedom was always ours. now we’re making sure the land is too.

BKLVLUP’s The Flats Community Land Trust (CLT) is holding its first ever meeting June 27 — come learn how we’re keeping East Flatbush, Flatbush, and Flatlands in the hands of the people who call it home.

no experience needed. just love for the neighborhood.

📅 June 27 | 10:30AM – 12PM
📍 Brooklyn Public Library – Clarendon Branch, 2035 Nostrand Ave

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questions? reach out CLT coordinator 📧[email protected]

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june is not a month. it’s a whole mood. 🌺🎶🏳️‍🌈

caribbean heritage, black music, pride — all at once, all in The Flats (East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands), all us.

swipe and see what we’re celebrating this month 💚

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🌱⚡ It’s finally here — and it was worth the wait.

The EcoPower ’26 Internship is OFFICIALLY OPEN and Brooklyn, we have been waiting to drop this one.

9 weeks. 4 tracks. Paid opportunity. Open to ALL high schoolers. No experience needed — just bring yourself and your drive.

This summer you’ll be doing REAL work. Soil testing, community mapping, building tech tools, creating media, running energy clinics, and more. Pick your track and go all in.

🌿 Environmental + Data — for the science lover
💻 Tech + AI — for the builder
🎥 Story + Media — for the storyteller
🤝 Community + Civic — for the connector

This isn’t a sit-and-shadow situation. You’re building something Brooklyn will actually feel.

The wait is over. Now it’s your turn. 👇

📅 Applications due June 19, 2026 at 11:59pm
🔗 Apply at ecopower26.bklvlup.org (link in bio)

Tag a Brooklyn teen who’s been waiting for an opportunity like this 🏙️🌱

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your voice. your choice. your community. 🗳️💚
the people’s money voting is OPEN now through june 21st — and east flatbush is on the ballot.

this is nyc’s citywide participatory budgeting process, which means YOU get to help decide how the city spends money in your neighborhood. wellness programs. housing & employment. youth internship & leadership, arts programs. and more.

that’s not a flyer. that’s power. 👆🏾

vote now → link in bio

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your voice. your choice. your community. 🗳️💚
the people’s money voting is OPEN now through june 21st — and east flatbush is on the ballot.

this is nyc’s citywide participatory budgeting process, which means YOU get to help decide how the city spends money in your neighborhood. wellness programs. housing & employment. youth internship & leadership. arts programs. and more.

that’s not a flyer. that’s power. 👆🏾

vote now → link in bio

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this is in the wild. 📍
from burial grounds to ballot boxes to ribbon cuttings — yeah, we stay on it. 🌿✂️🗳️
swipe to see what the work actually looks like when it’s not a press release. 👇🏾

1️⃣ people’s money gotv launch — civic power, literally in the streets. 💸
2️⃣ people’s money tabling fair — packed room. neighbors showing up for neighbors. 🗳️
3️⃣ flatbush burial ground — the land holds history. we hold the line. our founder, allyson martinez + elected officials on site — community and power, face to face. 🌀
4️⃣ bethany senior terraces — before we were responsible for getting the word out. we helped neighbors apply. ✊🏾
5️⃣ ribbon cutting day — and after (a few years later) we showed up when the doors opened. 🎀
6️⃣ mta ibx community session — transit justice IS environmental justice. 🚊
7️⃣ cb14 nonprofit roundtable — yes, we’re in those rooms too.

this is making sure the power is local. this is every day. 🗽
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Brooklyn, it’s time to put real dollars behind real community needs. 🗳️

Voting for NYC’s People’s Money is officially OPEN‼️ This is your chance to help decide what projects get funded in our borough.

From youth programs to community resources and neighborhood improvements, this is what people-powered budgeting looks like.

If you’re 11+ and live in NYC, you can vote.

Because the future of our neighborhoods should be shaped by the people who actually live in them.

Vote now through June 21 via the link in bio or scan the QR code above.

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Earth Day isn’t new to us. It’s every day. 🌍
You may have never called yourself an environmentalist. But consider this:

→ You’ve watched that empty lot flood every time it rains.
→ You’ve called 311 about trash that never gets picked up.
→ You’ve paid too much at the corner store because there’s no supermarket nearby — and you know that’s not an accident.
→ You’ve watched asthma take over the kids on your block.
→ You’ve held the block together when the city wouldn’t.

That’s environmental justice. You’ve been doing Earth Day all along.

Earth Day turned 56 this year. In Brooklyn, we’ve been answering the call without always calling it that.

At BKLVLUP, we name the work. We build the infrastructure. We train the next generation. We fight for community land trusts, clean air, and green jobs that stay in the neighborhood.

Climate justice IS housing justice IS economic justice IS racial justice. 💚💜
Happy Earth Day, Brooklyn. You’ve been holding it down. We’re just making it official.

👇 Tell us in the comments: how have you been doing Earth Day in your neighborhood?

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The search is over. 🙌🏾

We didn’t rush this one. Finding the right person to lead our Community Land Trust work — someone who not only understands the policy but lives the mission — took time. And Bryan Lenz Belmont was worth every bit of the wait.

Born and raised in Flatlands, Bryan brings the kind of roots, vision, and conviction that you can’t manufacture. He knows these blocks. He knows what’s at stake. And he’s here to build something lasting.
Welcome to the team, Bryan. BKLVLUP just leveled up. 💚🔥

Want to follow the work? Join our newsletter at bklvlup.org and be the first to know what Bryan and the Flats CLT are building next.

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