An abandoned bank building when the Arts Council bought it in 1998, the nine-story former People's National Bank and Trust Company, with its distinctive brickwork and a copper pitched roof, was designed by Harold P. Zoller, a White Plains resident, in the late 1920's.
Gates says that developers had tried to get control of the abandoned bank for twenty-five years, but couldn't make the numbers work.
The trouble began on Monday when police evicted squatters from an abandoned bank which has served as an informal civic centre for the past five years.
By early April, Mr. Twist had moved his rehearsals from the Village to the Upper East Side and then to an abandoned bank building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with ceilings 20 feet high and immense windows giving onto the river.
They may have painted out every single sign on the large abandoned bank building up for sale in the centre of Nicosia, but a year on from a chaotic 10bn euro ($13.9bn £8.4bnn) EU and IMF bailout - nobody has forgotten the name of Laiki.
This building was once an abandoned bank on the famous avenue Kurfürstendamm (colloquially "Ku'damm").
