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NYCHA provides numerous education and recreation programs for youth, adults, and seniors through its network of 164 Community and 137 Senior Centers. Over the past five years, NYCHA has invested more than $72 million to renovate, expand or build 31 new-state-of-the-art Community Centers in the five boroughs. The following centers are among them:
BRONX
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Artist rendering of Betances Community Center by Hypertecture for Stephen Yablon Architect
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Betances Community Center is located on the first floor of a residential building. It has been renovated and will be connected to a free-standing center on the corner of St. Ann's. The renovated center has been reconfigured from two centers into a single facility, and has dining facilities, kitchen, classroom spaces, a boxing gym with a new glazed entrance, and a new elevator for access to lower level spaces. This $10.6 million center is 16,000 square feet.
Architect: Stephen Yablon Architect
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Bronxdale Community Center
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Bronxdale Community Center is a newly constructed building consisting of a regulation-size gymnasium with locker rooms. The first floor of this two-story building houses a lobby leading to administrative and educational spaces, a dining/multi-purpose room, kitchen, and classroom. On the second floor is the arts and crafts room, three classrooms and exercise room. The building is equipped with a hydraulic elevator and chairlift, and each floor has handicapped accessible lavatories. The total area of the new center is 23,084 square feet including the 7,990 square foot gymnasium.
Architect: NYCHA Office of Design Architects
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Boston Road Community Center
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Boston Road Community Center involves new construction and renovation of multi-purpose rooms, office spaces, an exercise room, a sauna and steam rooms, a locker room, a commercial kitchen, and storage rooms. The center has been expanded from 10,400 to over 14,300 square feet to service the senior population of the Boston Road Community.
Architect: Davis Brody Bond LLP, Architects
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Throggs Neck Community Center
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Throggs Neck Community Center has been renovated and expanded to include a large gymnasium, multi-purpose room, kitchen, lounge, an arts and crafts room, game room, classrooms, and an approximately 4,000 square foot outdoor playground with open basketball court and play equipment. The new design incorporates natural lighting throughout the facility.
Architect: Thanhauser Esterson Kapell
BROOKLYN
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Bay View Community Center Rendering
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Bay View Community Center is a new two story building that features various amenities including a gymnasium/multipurpose room with a stage, a lobby with a sky light, a stair circulation system, classrooms, locker rooms and a kitchen. The building exterior is clad in stone and brick, and the surrounding site consists of an amphitheater and landscaped seating areas.
Architect: NYCHA Office of Design Architects
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Independence Towers Community Center
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Independence Towers Community Center has been renovated and expanded from 12,000 to 16,000 square feet. The renovation adds a striking multi-purpose room with curved roof, three kitchens, an office, two activity rooms and new landscaping.
Architect: NYCHA Office of Design Architects
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Architect's Model of Marcus Garvey Community Center
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Marcus Garvey Community Center has been newly constructed encompassing 5,500 square feet to accommodate a multi-purpose room, game room, clubrooms, office, kitchen and outdoor club space surrounded by glass curtain walls.
Architect: Caples Jefferson Architects
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Marlboro Community Center
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Marlboro Community Center: The renovation consists of general construction and HVAC upgrade of two floors with offices, arts and crafts rooms, a computer room, dining room, bathroom facilities, kitchen, and storage support spaces. The work includes the addition of a new entrance lobby and new ADA elevator for access to the basement spaces. The $4.5 million project comprises 12,680 square feet.
Architect: NYCHA Office of Design Architects
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Ingersoll Community Center
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Ingersoll Community Center has been rebuilt as a new two-story structure on the existing foundation of the former one-story center. The building is enlarged to accommodate a full-size gymnasium, an arts and crafts room, kitchen and dining room, computer room, library, and game room in the 10,555 square foot structure.
Architect: NYCHA Design Department Architects
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Saratoga Square Community Center
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Saratoga Square Community Center consists of a new addition as well as the renovation of the existing facility to include a multi-purpose room, office spaces, a kitchen, and storage rooms. The new 4,890 square foot center is more than three times the size of the original 1,350 square foot building.
Architect: George Ranalli Architect
MANHATTAN
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Ceiling of Fort Washington Community Center
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Fort Washington Community Center: This is a major renovation of the existing 6000 square foot senior center. The interior redesign includes a library, activity rooms, spa, kitchen, conference room, and offices, new partitions, suspended ceiling, electrical power, lighting, fire alarm, video, telecommunication and data systems, refreshing of existing toilets, new windows and clerestory, new flooring, heating and ventilation improvements, and a new air conditioning system.
Architect: Belmont Freeman Architects
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Manhattanville Community Center
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Manhattanville Community Center has completed renovations that include a new gymnasium floor and bleachers, arts and crafts room, game room, classrooms, computer lab, administration offices and a multi-purpose room. Square footage for the ground level is 6,000 and for the lower level 10,580.
Architect: OCV Architects
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Rendering of Polo Grounds Community Center, AP Digital Studio
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Polo Grounds Community Center, is a newly constructed building situated between Polo Grounds Towers and Rangel Houses. The new facility incorporates a gymnasium, arts and crafts room, photography and darkroom, game room, administration offices, and a multi-purpose room in 21,000 square feet.
Architect: Beckhard Richlan Szerbaty + Associates, LLP
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Artist rendering of Johnson Community Center
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Johnson Community Center entails the renovation of existing spaces and new construction to expand both a Children's Center and a Community Center. The Community Center incorporates a meeting room, an arts room, a gymnasium, a kitchen, and administrative offices. The two-story Children's Center consists of classrooms, administration offices, a kitchen, and utility spaces. Square footage for the Community Center is 14,081 and 9,625 for the Children's Center.
Architect: Peter Locasio, Architects
QUEENS
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Latimer Gardens Community Center
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Latimer Gardens Community Center was extensively renovated and expanded to include a multi-purpose room, office spaces, a kitchen, storage and clubrooms, accessible lavatories and a gymnasium. The renovation enlarges the center from approximately 8,000 to over 11,737 square feet.
Architect: Castro-Blanco Piscioneri
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Queensbridge Community Center gymnasium
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Queensbridge Community Center has been renovated to include a new office mezzanine, a hydraulic elevator, a toilet upgrade, gym rehabilitation, mechanical and ventilating equipment upgrade, and restoration of the exterior masonry, roofing, and exterior sculptural relief. The total cost of the 8,600 square foot Youth Center renovation is $3.9 million.
Architect: W. Hall Architects
STATEN ISLAND
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West Brighton Community Center, Photo:Yutaka Takiura, AIA/BRS+A
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West Brighton Community Center has been rebuilt and expanded with 6,000 additional square feet to enlarge the original facility to 12,400 square feet. Inside the beautifully designed 28-foot slanted brick masonry wall and blue stone front, West Brighton has a new multi-purpose room with a state-of-the-art stage, libraries, computer rooms, offices, a kitchen, storage rooms, exercise room, and ceramic shop.
Architect: Beckhard Richlan Szerbaty + Associates, LLP
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Stapleton Community Center roof
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Stapleton Community Center, a major new structure, consists of a 21,000 square foot facility encompassing a large gymnasium. Stapleton also includes a game room, dance room, accessories room, arts and crafts room, weight room, recording studio, offices, locker rooms, kitchen and dining room.
Architect: NYCHA Office of Design & Gruzen Samton Architects
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Architect's Rendering of Richmond
Terrace Community Center
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Richmond Terrace Community Center has been enlarged by 4,000 square feet featuring a curved curtain wall with windows open to a spectacular view of the surrounding green hill. The original 4,200 square foot center doubled in size and encompasses a dining room, exercise room, arts and crafts room, lounge, computer room, classroom, multi-purpose room, and storage rooms.
Architect: Pagnamenta Torriani Architects Planners
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