A beloved Brooklyn community nonprofit is seeking funds for urgent repairs to its buildings in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
This month the Magnolia Tree Earth Center (MTEC) launched an emergency GoFundMe to stabilize and repair the facades of its three brownstones along Lafayette Avenue. After an earlier contractor fiasco saddled the Earth Center with tens of thousands of dollars in city fines, the 50-year-old organization must now restore the deteriorating facades or it could lose its buildings.
“Our architect did the drawings, which got approved by the building department,” said Magnolia Tree Earth Center Board Chair Wayne Devonish. “We have a
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