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The Appointed Time?
By Jeremy | July 9, 2007
"Then the LORD replied: 'Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald [a] may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.'" Habbakuk 2:2-3In the summer of 1995, a full year before Generation Xcel opened its doors for the first time, a local community activist made my father and me aware of the decades long abandonment of the Baruch Bath House by the NYC Parks Department. He brought us photos that he had taken after somehow gaining access to the building, photos that betrayed years of neglect and decay while simultaneously casting vision for what again might be. My father's storefront congregation immediately began to dream about the building's potential and prayed that one day we would help rebuild its walls as a place of community refuge and opportunity. The following year, as we dreamed about Community Solutions and conceived the vision for Xcel, reclaiming the Bath House as a hub of community and youth outreach was so pivotal that we wrote it into our very first Action Plan (February 1996). In the years since then, we've explored possibilities, but the city never seemed prepared to really resolve the issues. Today's New York Times suggests that might be changing.
“For almost 40 years, the La Guardia recreation center, known in its Lower East Side neighborhood as the Whitehouse, has sat vacant  abandoned in the middle of a densely populated high-rise public housing complex. ... The same goes for a second abandoned recreation center near the Baruch Houses. Ms. Nayowith said, however, that the current situation has led to gaps in services, especially in poor neighborhoods. Many private groups that offer recreational services, including the Y.M.C.A., typically charge membership fees. 'In places where we have concentrations of the poor and have significant economic disadvantage, we have to think about the need to accommodate the recreational and cultural needs of the community, especially in a city that has a $5 billion surplus,' she said. 'The available park space and playground space is not distributed equally across neighborhoods. So while there is plenty to do, it still doesn’t meet demand.'â€Â- From, "Difficult Choices for the Old Rec Center"amateur blog sex100 sex freeboy 8teenporno amaturetapes amateur sexoral sex adultadult porn galleries3d sex videos Map
Topics: lower east side, news, youth | 1 Comment »
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I live behind this abandoned building in Baruch Houses… for 41 years! I remember seeing it being used when I was a kid, but it was closed in the early 70′s.
Does anyone know what’s going to be done with it??