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Bedford Stuyvesant Real Estate Board’s 75th Anniversary Celebration

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Honoring the past, Charting the Future

The Trust: Standing united on foundations built by past trailblazers, the present-day Bedford-Stuyvesant Real Estate Board is advancing its 75-year-old organization into the 21st century, utilizing today’s technological tools, new partnerships and focused strategies in Central Brooklyn and beyond.  Joyce P. Turner (right), BSREB Board chair and president/CEO, Cross Boro Business Services; Bessie Edwards, BSREB president and principal/CEO, B.R.Edwards Associates Real Estate, Inc.; Richard Flateau (far left), BSREB treasurer and president/CEO Flateau Realty Corp., and Norman Leff, BSREB Financial Secretary and Sales Agent, are committed to continuing the vision of its trailblazing predecessors Mr. Jesse L. Vann, BSREB founder; LeRoy F. Hill, Wilbert Blanche, Philip J. Manning, Benjamin Williams, Joseph Boyd and Norman Johnson: to build realtists and realty businesses; forge professional careers; sustain a living for craftspeople and provide property-ownership opportunity for families and individuals in Brooklyn and beyond.  (Board members unpictured include: Douglas Anderson, Angela Bell and Barbara Haynes.)  Photo: Johnathan Jeronimo

In the special insert, the Board acknowledges families, residents and institutions who are a testament to the founder’s vision and the 75th anniversaryevent theme of honoring the past, charting the future.  Click here for BSREB Journal

 

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