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Charles C. Pinn Triangle

Troy Av, Fulton St, Lewis Av

Brooklyn

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This greenspace is named for Charles "Chris" Pinn (196601995) who was a community organizer and assistant to Assemblyman Al Vann and Council Member Annette Robinson. He worked diligently to improve conditions and opportunities, particularly for the youth of central Brooklyn, and organized block associations, Parent-Teacher Associations, and tenants’ groups.

Pinn founded the Young People’s Macon MacDonough Stuyvesant Lewis Block Association in Bedford-Stuyvesant and formed the Junior Vanguard Independent Democratic Association (VIDA). He was also Chairperson of  Community Board 3 and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Conference Youth Task Force as well as Secretary of the Brooklyn branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 

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