NO EVICTION AT 964 PARK!
Stop the deed theft — return the stolen deed to the Robinson-Torain family now.

On Monday morning, August 5th, Judge Bernard Graham of the Brooklyn Surrogate's Court will decide a motion to STOP the eviction of Helen Robinson, Sherease Torain, and the Robinson-Torain family from the house they've lived in since 1951.

Tell Judge Graham to do the right thing and ORDER the eviction stopped before it can happen – and demand that the courts immediately return the deed stolen from the Robinson-Torain family by a gang of white collar criminals in 2015.

The motion to stop the eviction before it can happen will be decided mere days before hired marshals, paid by the deed thieves, could attempt another so-called "legal" eviction.

After the family's rock, 100-year-old Ida Robinson passed away in the last days of 2023, the deed thieves saw a moment of weakness: while the family was organizing the estate and preparing to argue the deed forgery case before Brooklyn's Supreme Court this September, the thieves asked the courts for – and outrageously received – another eviction warrant.

They shall not pass. Tenant union power! People power.

If Judge Graham doesn't act, and if the courts of Kings County do not act, the crime of deed theft will be complete: evicting and dispossessing a family that has been a beacon for Black and working-class Brooklyn for generations. The family, the block, and the tenant unions will never allow it.

CONTEXT: The deed to the Robinson-Torain family’s home was forged by a deed theft ring in 2015, and for 10 years the family has held their home–demanding justice in the face of a system that has refused them justice. Until now.

The family, the Crown Heights Tenant Union, Brooklyn Eviction Defense, and scores of working-class Brooklynites successfully defended the home against the deed thieves on their last attempt at a marshal eviction in 2022.

The Robinson-Torain family, who were the first Black family on their block of Park Place brownstones in Crown Heights in 1951, have been at the center of the fight for racial justice and communal healing for three quarters of a century.

Crown Heights is confronting the crisis of eviction and displacement of Black and working-class residents. "The neighborhood's Black population declined by 18,750 people between 2010 and 2020," reported Patch based on Census Bureau data, and "the North Crown Heights drop in Black residents was the most dramatic of any neighborhood across the five boroughs, according to City Planning." Unacceptable. We will fight back, united.

For Helen Queen Afua Robinson and her daughter Sherease Torain – and in memory of the family’s rock, Ida Robinson who recently passed aged 100 – the fight for their home is one part of a broader healing of working-class and Black Brooklyn. We shall not be moved.

The family and the movement have one simple message: End the crime of deed theft forever; end eviction, dispossession, and the displacement of Black and working-class Brooklyn forever; return the deed to the Robinson-Torain family immediately. We shall not be moved!

Tell Judge Graham: ORDER the eviction stopped NOW.