RE-iMAGINE THIS lOWER EAST SIDE COMFORT STATION with us
Join The Free Store Project in RE-SHAPING PUBLIC SPACE
As the founder of The Free Store Project, I’ve spent years thinking about how public space can support care, creativity, and community. I’ve recently been learning the history of this shuttered comfort station on Delancey Street (on the Allen Mall) and exploring what it could become if restored as a community-centered cultural space- a Cultural Center to be exact. This is early, exploratory, and very much a listening phase, but it feels important to ask how cultural education, storytelling, and access to creative space can remain rooted in this neighborhood.
When I say ‘Cultural Center,’ I’m thinking about a vibrant, thriving, affordable space for workshops, visual arts, textiles, events, small performances, and especially storytelling as a way to hold onto neighborhood history & lived experience as the area around itcontinues to change.
If you have thoughts, memories, or ideas about this Lower East Side site, I’m listening.
voice your opinion
Our proposed Lower East Side Cultural Center (LESCC) will transform a currently underutilized Parks Department facility into a vibrant, community-centered hub for arts, culture, education & intergenerational connection.
Our mission is to preserve the neighborhood’s cultural heritage while providing accessible, year-round programming that supports local artists, families, youth, and elders. LESCC will serve as a welcoming public anchor where residents can gather, create, learn & celebrate the diverse cultural traditions that define the LES
"what should go here?" : abandoned comfort station on allen mall
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