With her first State of the Borough event for the public, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer is forgoing the traditional address format to instead hold an interactive community conversation on residents’ most pressing concerns and the initiatives the MBPO is working on to address them.

Borough President Brewer will welcome to the stage four Manhattan thought leaders to talk candidly about affordable housing, education, technology, development in the borough, police-community relations, and other issues topping her constituents’ lists of concerns. Audience members will be invited to live-Tweet questions and comments for all to see onstage—feedback that the speakers will explore in their conversation.

Each of the four guests will speak with Borough President Brewer about the issues they feel are most important to quality of life in Manhattan. Collectively, these conversations will address the borough’s diversity of interests and perspectives.

Doors open 1:30pm, program starts 2pm.