Longtime Carroll Gardens residents are mourning Celia Cacace, a well-known neighborhood civil leader and Community Board 6 member during the 1970s,‘80s, ‘90s and early 2000s. Community Board 6, on Friday, confirmed her death, which was originally made public on the local “Pardon Me for Asking” blog. The blog received the news from her nephew, Michael Jaworski, who said she died on Feb. 22 after suffering from poor health.

Celia (also known as Cecilia) always referred to the neighborhood as Red Hook or South Brooklyn, not Carroll Gardens, a term reportedly coined by the late fellow civic leader and funeral home owner Buddy Scotto in the 1960s. She was priced out of the neighborhood in 2012-13 when her apartment on First Place was sold, the Eagle reported in January 2013.