Build Up Justice NYC

About Build Up Justice NYC

Build Up Justice NYC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides free civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers, with a stated focus on economic and racial justice. It was founded in 1968 as Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A and changed its name on July 1, 2025. Its work is organized around three core programs: Preserving Affordable Housing, Consumer and Economic Advocacy, and Community Economic Development. The organization offers full representation, brief advice, outreach and education to low- and moderate-income individuals, families, community organizations and small business owners.

Its practice areas include tenant defense and eviction prevention, foreclosure prevention (which can involve bankruptcy proceedings), a low-income taxpayer clinic that helps resolve disputes with the IRS and New York State tax authorities, and wills and estate planning services. Its services cover all five boroughs. Listed offices are in Brooklyn (Williamsburg, Bed-Stuy and Bushwick) and in Jamaica, Queens, and the organization reports that its Queens housing work has expanded since 2024.

Practice areas

Areas of work that Build Up Justice NYC describes on its own website. They describe the organization as a whole, not the practice of any individual attorney listed below.

Organization profile based on its official website and public sources (reviewed October 29, 2026). Attorney list from the New York State Unified Court System registration data. Not affiliated with Build Up Justice NYC.

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