Turn Former Rehab Center into Community Center, Bronx Residents Say
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By Eddie Small
MOTT HAVEN — A group of South Bronx activists hope to turn a vacant former rehab center into a thriving community center for health, education and the arts.
The building is located at 349 E. 140th St. and owned by NYC Health + Hospitals, which previously used it for a substance abuse treatment program that now operates out of a different HHC building in The Bronx.
Members of South Bronx Unite and other groups are pushing to make the building active again, specifically as a place where they and other neighborhood organizations could have a stable, long-term home.
"A lot of organizations that service this community don’t really have a permanent facility that they can work out of," said Mychal Johnson, a co-founding member of South Bronx Unite and one of the advocates behind the push to reopen the building.
