Bushwick Native Seeks to Defend Historic Ridgewood Theatre From Real Estate Moguls

Anthony Arroyo is raising funds to fight off developers from the Ridgewood Theatre which he hopes to restore as an innovative community-focused performing arts space.

Bushwick Native Seeks to Defend Historic Ridgewood Theatre From Real Estate Moguls

A Bushwick native and home renovation contractor hopes to save a little bit of historic theater from those damned real estate moguls.

Anthony Arroyo is currently raising funds on GoFundMe for an ambitious project to rent the ground level commercial space at the Ridgewood Theatre (55-27 Myrtle Ave.), and open there a community-focused performing arts space. The Ridgewood Theatre is owned by a group of investors that recently purchased, gutted, and rebuilt it into a pricy five-story apartment complex.

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