Ezra Goldstein, Trustee
Ezra Goldstein has been co-owner of Community Bookstore in Park Slope since 2010, and of Terrace Books in Windsor Terrace since 2015. From 2004-2010, he edited the Civic Council Civic News, then a newsletter published 10 times a year, and sat as an ex-officio member of the Civic Council board. An Ohio native—one of Brooklyn’s few buckeye trees outside the Botanic Garden grows in front of his Carroll Street home—he moved to Park Slope in 1985. He and his wife, Annette, a public-school teacher, raised two sons and a daughter in the neighborhood, and have lived here long enough to mourn the passing of myriad mom and pop shops that helped give the neighborhood character and cohesion. Even before the retail disaster of COVID-19, Ezra was deeply concerned, for reasons both selfish and collective, about the future of independent business in Park Slope and all New York City. It is this concern that made him wish to become involved once again with the Park Slope Civic Council.