As usual I wrestle with technology and I can't get the image rotated so go to this article and you can read about this building...the neighborhood's first symbol of gentrification and see a proper photo.A community member asked me if the building was suppose to honor some agreement to have a space for the community because of the buildings original use.
One of the first posting ever on my blog is the stunning historic NYPD building which is now condos and they building did in fact honor it's community facility agreement. I show cased this because the building is across from a massive NYU Student housing building with a mirrored store front that could also be community outreach resource center.
If anyone know anything please post on my blog, thank you.
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_119/onavebtryingto.html
Here is an excerpt from the article:
Built in 1928 as a settlement house, Christodora House provided food, shelter, education and health services to low-income immigrants in New York City at that time. The building housed a music school and theater, as well as the gym and swimming pool. Various accounts report that George Gershwin gave his first public performance in the building.
http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2007/12/north-side-of-stunning-historic-police.html
Here is one of my first posts and it was to again bring home the point NYU owes the community community outreach resource centers...they owe us as much as they can give and even more considering how they have mega dormed the East Village to death and if they used the term community facility than honor us and give us community facilities rather than exclude the community. We need the supermarket on 2nd Avenue and we need NYU to make homes for other small businesses the community relies on that can be replaced by mega retail.
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