On Sunday, more than a hundred locals gathered to demand that the former P.S. 64 in the East Village be turned back into a community center, which it had been for over 20 years before being bought by a developer during the Giuliani administration.
that the developer’s investors can move forward with a foreclosure after the developer failed to pay the balance of a $44 million loan. A foreclosure would open up the possibility of new ownership.Max Rivlin-Nadler / Gothamist
Previous tenants of the space include a community movie theater, a marionette group and Recycle-A-Bicycle. As a student at NYU, Spike Lee also premiered films there. “We keep showing up here to ask for something very very simple. To save our community center, and bring it back to its full potential for the LES,” said City Councilmember Carlina Rivera.In a press release distributed at the rally by the site’s owner, a spokesperson wrote that if approved, the dormitory plan would inject more than $20 million into the economy of the local community. The developer blamed local politicians for halting development and creating “a vacant eyesore in the community.
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