More than 100 heartbroken Brooklyn residents yesterday gathered for a fund-raiser to try to keep a beloved community activist from being priced out of her neighborhood.
Carroll Gardens activist Celia Cacace, 76, has said she can no longer afford to live in her neighborhood, where she’s served as a community-board member for decades.
The building where she rents a $500-a-month apartment is up for sale, and she said she can’t afford to move into a new local pad, so she’s planning to live with relatives in Wisconsin.
“I’ve been a Brooklynite all my life,” Cacace said sadly at Mama Maria’s eatery in Carroll Gardens yesterday. “Now I have to learn to be a Wisconsinite.”
Organizers of the fund-raiser hope to eventually help raise enough money for Cacace so that she can stave off her planned relocation.