Programming

 

Four of these features might be more important for Baruch Houses..

Community Centers are vital for NYCHA  programs in general as the people have to participate at common issues at least for 8 hours per month to sustain their position at the project. And of course it’s about training and organizing themselves to protect their rights and the place they live.

Secondly, agriculture as a function is also vital since people already try to grow their own vegetables and is also an occupation during free time. There are already garden programs where even seniors join. Of course this feature has a lot of potential since the site has a generous surface for hosting these kind of activities.

As a project of NYCHA Baruch Houses are receiving instructions or advice by them. So, there are the NYCHA programs which actually can be found on several projects. These programs are related to health, cultural, educational and training facilities and in order to maintain or even expand them there should be a system that can “host” them.

Finally, going back to the past and watching at the streams that were there, the idea of the water can be brought to present as a public path/swimming pool. The idea of public bath is not new also. There was one on site until 70s and people were actually using it not only for their hygiene or exercising but for art events.

The rest of them are less important facilities that can be found. Some them will appear once depending on their local or interlocal nature.