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The city let its own Bed-Stuy building rot into a $60 million repair hole. Now the decay is the case for tearing it down

The city wants to replace its decayed Bed-Stuy Multi-Service Center with housing. It skips how its own neglect created the $60 million repair hole.

An affordable housing building under construction in Brooklyn with a crane

The city let its own Bed-Stuy building rot into a $60 million repair hole. Now the decay is the case for tearing it down

The city wants to replace its decayed Bed-Stuy Multi-Service Center with housing. It skips how its own neglect created the $60 million repair hole.

The city let its own Bed-Stuy building rot into a $60 million repair hole. Now the decay is the case for tearing it down
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The city wants to turn its aging Bed-Stuy Multi-Service Center into affordable housing, and is selling it as a win for public land. The part the press release skips is how the building got to the point of needing replacement: the city owns it, and the city let it rot.

The five-story building at 1958 Fulton Street, built between 1912 and 1925 , houses social services including a CAMBA homelessness-prevention program, and now needs roughly $60 million in capital repairs , per…

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