On Saturday, Sept. 22, the long-awaited Bushwick Community Plan was released to a packed auditorium at the Academy of Urban Planning.

“If we don’t present the change, change gonna change us,” says Odolph Wright, parliamentarian of Community Board 4.

On Saturday morning, Wright sat at a cafeteria table with Robert Camacho, also of Community Board 4, before the opening remarks at the Bushwick Community Plan release where to begin. A diverse crowd filled the multi-purpose room, many greeting each other with warm hugs and familiar greetings in English and Spanish before they found seats around the cafeteria tables.