#SAVEAMERICANSTAR: Pastor Denzil Vaughn & Lanney Leonard Shand Trust DO THE RIGHT THING and sell the building at 1386 St Johns Place to Mr. Kamara!

Please Sign & Circulate Widely: We need 500 signatures by 3/22/2018

Petition to #SaveAmericanStar Hardware Store, a fixture in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn community for over 20 years !!

Pastor Denzil Vaughn & Lanney Leonard Shand Trust DO THE RIGHT THING and sell the building at 1386 St Johns Place to Mr. Kamara!

In February 2018, 674 people throughout New York City and across the country came together to raise $25,322 to help Mr. Mohammed Kamara, stop the eviction of his business, American Star Hardware located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Here is the GO FUND ME fundraising campaign created by Mr. Kamara's neighbors: https://www.gofundme.com/help-mohammed-keep-his-business

Despite this tremendous community effort and securing a financial investor, Mr. Kamara's landlords, Pastor Denzil Vaughan and Lanney Leonard Shand Trust are refusing to allow Mr. Kamara to buy the building and save his business from displacement.

Crown Heights is one of the most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn, with one of the highest rates of evictions and closures of small long-time businesses. Large real estate developers want nothing more than Pastor Denzil Vaughn of Lanney Leonard Shand Trust to sell the building to them, in order to build yet another towering hi-rise full of luxury condos. The only way to stop the rapid gentrification of Brooklyn is for us as a community to come together to stop the displacement of residents and small businesses like American Star Hardware Store We, the community are calling on Pastor Denzil Vaughn of Lanney Leonard Shand Trust to DO THE RIGHT THING and sell 1386 St Johns Place to Mr. Kamara.

#SaveAmericanStar #WeLoveAmericanStar #WeLoveMrKamara #BrooklynIsNotforSale #CrownHeightsIsNotforSale #LanneyLeonardShandTrust #PastorDenzilVaughn

BEFORE IT'S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is the Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification campaign of Equality for Flatbush www.equalityforflatbush.org #Beforeitsgone #TakeitBack