Mott Haven Community Center is Reborn

Lindsay A. Lazarski, City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

Abstract

For years the thumping of fists pounding punching bags, the scuffle of sneakers and the grunts of athletes were the sounds a visitor heard at the Betances Community Center and Boxing Gym. Now, the scratch of pencils and flip of workbook pages fill the newly renovated center. Betances has dropped “Boxing Gym” from its name and has a new mission under new operators.