Bedford + Bowery: Blue-Sky Thinking Guides a Push to Turn LES Park Building Into a Community Center

JULY 7, 2016 BY CASSIDY DAWN GRAVES

(photo: Cassidy Dawn Graves)

“On the northern side of Sara D. Roosevelt Park sits a large brick structure. Once a youth center, the Stanton Building was shut down during a time of high crime in the Lower East Side and is now used only for storage by the Parks Department. Since the late ’90s, there’s been talk of returning it to community use, but that has yet to happen…”