Sara D. Roosevelt Park Coalition Fights to Reopen Stanton Street Building

“Maymond Baba remembers playing ping pong inside the Stanton Street building as a teenager in the 1970s. … the building was home to a youth recreation center…. two decades later … the Stanton Street building [was] shuttered….

In front of the …building, A group of Chinese women were in perfect sync dancing Zumba hosted by the University Settlement House. Teenagers with the LUNGS Youth Program mulched tree beds around the building and filmed each other with cameras provided by DCTV. Amid the commotion, LES residents and community organizers shared their visions of what the Stanton Street building could become…”

Read the full article in the Lo-Down.