Finding a new use for century-old Bronx courthouse
Landmark building opens its doors to public for first time in nearly four decades, hosting free art exhibition organised by non-profit organisation No Longer Empty
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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 over the Melrose neighbourhood has opened its doors to the public for the first time in nearly four decades, hosting a free art exhibition organised by the non-profit organisation No Longer Empty through Sunday. Since April, more than 6,000 people have come for a closer look at the courthouse, which was finished in 1914 and once presided over civic life in the South Bronx.
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