Bronx Group Gets $40K to Help Turn Old Rehab Center into Community Center
DNAInfo
By Eddie Small
MOTT HAVEN — The effort to turn a former South Bronx rehab center into a community center just got a $40,000 boost.
Members of South Bronx Unite have been pushing to turn the vacant building at 349 E. 140th St. into a community center, and the New York Foundation — a group that aims to support community organizing and advocacy — recently awarded them a grant for $40,000 to help realize this goal and cover the costs of developing a proposal for the site.
"I think the real piece of it that we felt was the most important was that this group, South Bronx Unite, was committed to supporting local organizations who were collectively organizing and serving thousands of young people and their families and community residents every year," said Kevin Ryan, program director at the New York Foundation. South Bronx Unite views the building as a place that community groups, including themselves, could use as a permanent home, a goal that Ryan described as particularly important given the wave of new real estate development arriving in the borough.
