The MTA is turning empty retail spaces throughout the subway system into sites of culture and community.
The crowded, sweaty sort you might find in any given apartment building on any given weekend. Only this was a storefront, a subterranean space located in the bowels of the Jackson Heights subway station.
For Naomi Sturm, the executive director and co-founder of Los Herederos, the opportunity to occupy a rent-free space at the center of Queens was a godsend. But it came after a long struggle, during which the group felt it had been priced out of much of the borough, and the city.“We are looking to activate vacant spaces to improve the station atmosphere,” Jamie Torres-Springer, the MTA Construction & Development president said in a statement.
Currently, the agency has five spaces available, including at Jay St-Metrotech in downtown Brooklyn and Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike in Queens. The space, said Sturm, will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday as well as select weekends. The programming will include live broadcasts over the organization’s online radio stream,Visitors will also encounter the gallery space, which was inaugurated with “Queens as Cultural Crossroads,” a yearlong project focusing on the people of Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights.
The travelers include local residents, people schlepping suitcases to and from La Guardia and Kennedy airports, and many others. Her 11 year old daughter Ayana Rahma nodded approvingly. “There was a lot of diversity in there,” she said.
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