James E. Davis 80 Arts Building

80 Hanson Place | also 130 South Portland Avenue, 78 Hanson Place | Fort Greene | built 1930

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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2006
MoCADA opens its Culture Lab on the ground floor of 80 Hanson Place
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts was founded in 1999 by Laurie Cumbo in a Bedford-Stuyvesant building owned by Bridge Street AWME Church. In 2006 it moved to a larger space it called Culture Lab, taking the ground level of 80 Hanson Place in Fort Greene, also known as the James E. Davis 80 Arts Building. The neighborhood is part of the Brooklyn Cultural District.
Source: Wikipedia
2024
March 31
MoCADA's Culture Lab on Hanson Place closes as the museum heads to a new home
The museum's Culture Lab at Hanson Place shut on March 31, 2024. Construction had begun on December 4, 2019 on the L10 Arts and Cultural Center, which was to house a new home for MoCADA along with branches of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Brooklyn Public Library. The successor space, Culture Lab II, opened at 10 Lafayette Avenue in January 2025.
“The Culture Lab on Hanson Place closed on March 31, 2024, and the new location, dubbed Culture Lab II, opened in January 2025.”
Source: Wikipedia

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