Excellence Award Spotlight: Claudette Brady

This video shines a spotlight on Claudette Brady, recipient of a 2023 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from the Preservation League of NYS.
Claudette Brady has been a staunch advocate for her Brooklyn community for decades. Spearheading the campaign for historic district designation of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Claudette rallied her neighbors and made historic preservation meaningful for the people of the neighborhood. In the years since that successful campaign, Claudette has continued advocating for historic preservation, uplifting the history of traditionally underrepresented people, and centering them in the conversation about what we preserve and for whom. She has recently become the Executive Director of Save Harlem Now!, a nonprofit preservation advocacy organization in Harlem, NY.
In reflecting on what preservation means to her, Claudette Brady said, “Preservation for me is about community and people’s relationship to the built environment. In Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem, people take pride in their neighborhood. While working to designate the districts in Bedford-Stuyvesant, I met people who I now consider family.”
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