Filling nearly a full city block in the lower-income Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, a gigantic barrel-vaulted building sits as a vestige of a distant past.
The 67,000-square-foot buildingâ"about a professional soccer field worth of spaceâ"was home to a troop of horse riders for the New York State Cavalry when it was built in the late 1800s.
Today, after years of vacancy and a takeover by the city of New York, a large-scale renovation has turned that historic space into a massive community-focused recreation center, with health services, offices for local nonprofits, and mixed-income housing.
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Filling nearly a full city block in the lower-income Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, a gigantic barrel-vaulted building sits as a vestige of a distant past. The 67,000-square-foot buildingâ"about a professional soccer field worth of spaceâ"was home to a troop of horse riders for the New York State Cavalry [...]