After seeing flyers about meetings with MTOPP around the Empire Boulevard and hearing about the district manager’s removal from the community board and research I decided to cover how a battle that has been dragged out over a year between the community ( or rather MTOPP) and community board nine in crown heights was about. Going in I really didn’t know what was going on but after reading articles from DNAinfo.com I got the idea of it. Two key figures Pearl Miles and Alicia Boyd who is the founder of MTOPP.