# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Power of the Story: Neighbors Share How Brooklyn Fought Deed Theft - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a powerful night centered on community, storytelling, and home.About this EventIn partnership with the NYC Office of City Planning, Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams, and Council Member Chi Ossé, gather with us on the historic grounds of one of the nation’s largest free Black communities for a discussion on what it means to carry on the legacy of Black belonging in Brooklyn today.Begin the night with a free tour of the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses (5:30 pm), to learn more about the inspiring history of Black homeownership and placemaking in Central Brooklyn. Then, gather with us at 6pm to hear directly from advocates and community members who are directly impacted by deed theft. Through their stories, learn more about the troubling rise of deed theft and about the tools we have as a community to fight it.Accompanying this event, Weeksville invites you to continue the conversation by sharing your own stories of deed theft with us. Throughout the event, sign ups will be available to participate in an oral history project, capturing the stories and experiences of our neighbors impacted by deed theft.If you are interested in sharing your personal account for the Weeksville Heritage Center archive, please register via the oral history sign-up sheet, linked here. Or, sign up in person Thursday evening during the event. Participating in the oral history project is completely optional and will take place at a later date. Sharing your story of deed theft as an oral history provides an opportunity to become a lasting part of the record, capturing this moment of increased housing instability and neighborhood change in Central Brooklyn through the experiences of our community in reckoning with it right now.This is a public event, and all who are interested in learning more about this critical issue are invited to join. Please note that while the Historic Hunterfly House Tour is not ADA accessible, the discussion will be. Snacks and drinks will be provided. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/the-power-of-the-story-neighbors-share-how-brooklyn-fought-deed-theft/100001992934708361 - **Event Categories**: storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Weeksville Heritage Center - **lat**: 40.67397609999999 - **long**: -73.9253119 - **full address**: Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Power of the Story: Neighbors Share How Brooklyn Fought Deed Theft - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/80f5b7a0ea6fcd62b279381ebfa7f42be4959617b228de6dae811bfc6f5297a0-rimg-w1200-h882-dc464b44-gmir.jpg?v=1783358342 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Power of the Story: Neighbors Share How Brooklyn Fought Deed Theft being held? - **A:** The Power of the Story: Neighbors Share How Brooklyn Fought Deed Theft takes place on Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 05:30 pm to Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Power of the Story: Neighbors Share How Brooklyn Fought Deed Theft? - **A:** The Power of the Story: Neighbors Share How Brooklyn Fought Deed Theft is organized by Weeksville Heritage Center. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The Power of the Story: Neighbors Share How Brooklyn Fought Deed Theft", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/80f5b7a0ea6fcd62b279381ebfa7f42be4959617b228de6dae811bfc6f5297a0-rimg-w1200-h882-dc464b44-gmir.jpg?v=1783358342", "startDate": "2026-07-09", "endDate": "2026-07-09", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/the-power-of-the-story-neighbors-share-how-brooklyn-fought-deed-theft/100001992934708361", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Weeksville Heritage Center", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "158 Buffalo Avenue", "postalCode": "11213", "addressLocality": "Brooklyn", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.67397609999999", "longitude": "-73.9253119" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a powerful night centered on community, storytelling, and home.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-08", "availabilityEnds": "2026-07-09", "validFrom": "2026-09-08", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/the-power-of-the-story-neighbors-share-how-brooklyn-fought-deed-theft/100001992934708361" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-08", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-08", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/the-power-of-the-story-neighbors-share-how-brooklyn-fought-deed-theft/100001992934708361", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Weeksville Heritage Center", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/weeksville-heritage-center/22749071", "description": "Our Mission:To document, preserve, and interpret the history of free African American communities in Weeksville, Brooklyn and beyond, and to create and inspire innovative, contemporary uses of African American history through education, the arts, and civic engagement." } ] } ] ```