$14M East New York community center plan postponed indefinitely

The planned, $14 million community center at a crime-ridden East New
York housing project has been tabled indefinitely, officials from the
New York City Housing Authority told the Daily News. The two-story
center was initially promised six years ago to the more than 4,000
residents of The Linden Houses On Stanley Avenue. Currently, the site
is A Rundown Basketball Court. City Council member Charles Baron raised
nearly $4 million for the project between 2004 and 2006 and the NYCHA
committed another $10 million in 2007. That city money has since been
reallocated for structural repairs at other developments where the need
was more critical, according to a spokesperson for the agency. [NYDN]