DNAinfo: ‘Task Force’ Launches Workshops to Turn Parks Building Into Youth Center””

By Allegra Hobbs | July 6, 2016 5:18pm

“… Community members have launched a series of workshops aimed at convincing the city to turn a run-down storage facility into a community center with much-needed public restrooms — a cause advocates have been pushing for since 1994…”

The Stanton Building Task Force,…gathered outside the Parks Department building on Stanton Street to pass out surveys to park-goers in order to gather feedback on how best to revitalize the space, which the department has been using as a storage facility since the 1980s …

…[Webster said] ..community members care deeply about the park space and want very much to see its facilities open to the community.

But the department has shown no interest in moving forward with the community’s demand … a demand supported by Community Board 3 …”

Read the full article in DNAinfo 

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