If you have ever wanted to develop a roll of film by hand in New York, your options are thinning out, and one of the last of them is on the clock. The Bushwick Community Darkroom, a do-it-yourself institution that has taught analog photography for 15 years, told its members on May 26 that it can no longer pay its own way, and it has until June 30 to lock in a new lease or shut down. The one buyer who came forward, according to Patch, offered $5,000 paid out in $500 monthly installments while asking to control the membership revenue right away.

It is not closing because nobody wants it. It is closing because one person has been running all of it. Founder Lucia Rollow opened the space in 2011 out of a closet in her basement, tested the idea with a Kickstarter (“If we didn’t make the goal, then the community didn’t need it, and I wouldn’t do it,” she told Patch) and has moved it four times since. What broke was the workload. “I’ve just been trying to do everything by myself,” Rollow said. “I can’t do the marketing and run the actual physical space.”