Community Raises Pulse for H.E.Arts Center
Bronx Times
By Robert Christie
Members of the Mott Haven-Port Morris Land Trust will host an evening with dinner and music to garner community support for a potential H.E.Arts Community Center in Mott Haven.
The event will take place on Saturday, April 1 at the Metropolitan College of New York from 4 to 7 p.m.The land trust has been planning since June 2016 ways in which they can turn the former Lincoln Recovery Center, at 349 E. 140th Street, into a useful building for residents in the Mott Haven and Port Morris neighborhoods. The recovery center, which treated many former prisoners referred by the city and state for substance abuse, closed in 2012. Now the building sits vacant and local community members see an opportunity.
The land trust includes South Bronx Unite, Upbeat NYC, Friends of Brook Park, Mothers on the Move, South Bronx Farmer’s Market and SUNY Attain Lab.
According to Mychal Johnson, president of South Bronx Unite, the land trust formed as a way to identify publicly owned property in the community that was being underutilized. The question the groups ask themselves is, “How can we help to provide answers that our community needs?,” he said.
