The Times reports that the clock is ticking for St. Ann’s Warehouse to find a new home following a ruling that prevents the arts organization from relocating to the Tobacco Warehouse in Dumbo. St. Ann’s is scheduled to leave its current home, a few blocks away from the Tobacco Warehouse, next May to make way for Two Trees’ Dock Street development. The organization’s plans for the Tobacco Warehouse—which a federal judge ruled in April was part of Empire Fulton Ferry State Park, and therefore could not be taken over by any single group—involved a 10,250-square-foot theater, a 7,000-square-foot public garden and a 2,100-square-foot community hall. Now Susan Feldman, the artistic director of St. Ann’s, says its unclear where the organization will go next: “It leaves us maybe having to leave Dumbo. Perhaps even leaving Brooklyn. None of us want that, but the theater we do at St. Ann’s doesn’t easily fit into pre-existing spaces that we’ve seen, and we want to continue to do that work.”
St. Ann’s Warehouse Scrambles to Find New Home [NY Times]
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