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Some Lower East Side Park Projects Receive Funding, While Others Languish | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side


This story was reported by Zach Williams.
Where the Parks Department sees a place to store stacks of pristine work gloves, rakes and other supplies, local activists envision a community center. Reconciling the two designs on a Stanton Street building within Sara D. Roosevelt Park remains as elusive now as 20 years ago.
Neighborhood parks received more than $8 million last year as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Community Parks Initiative. That money will fund improvements at three Lower East Side parks and followed a renewed interest in recent years within the neighborhood to secure under-utilized park buildings for community use. Yet, it remains to be seen whether this change in the political winds will result in concrete plans to transform the Stanton Street building into a community center, as well as a number of other under-utilized park buildings throughout the neighborhood. ....

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