Finding a new use for century-old Bronx courthouse

New York

THE last stop in an art show at the old Bronx Borough Courthouse is a wooden table with a handwritten sign sitting on top that asks visitors, "What would you like to see this building become?" The outpouring of responses has covered dozens of yellow sticky notes. Art museum. Movie theatre. Library. Mall. Haunted house.

The landmark beaux-arts building towering ove…