Just off Shoreditch High Street, where Brick Lane market peters out into a grungy warren of warehouses and strip pubs, are hidden some of the capital's most opulent palaces of entertainment.
They envision converting the lot, which is surrounded by H & H Bagels, a car wash, storage warehouses and a strip club, into a space-themed museum that would serve as the home of the Enterprise and draw as many as one million visitors a year.
"All three teenagers trained here, in a nondescript warehouse, sandwiched between a strip mall and a trailer park, known as the India Community Center Table Tennis Center," she wrote.
Around 9pm, groups of protesters gathered at the Warehouse District, another entertainment strip on West 6th street, about two blocks west of the Justice Center.
It also said that Feed the Children once lent $950,000 to a framing business headed by the founder's son, and that the charity has sued the son for allegedly helping strip a warehouse of $5 million in materials.
The site, 75 acres in the southwest corner of the village with cracked pavement, vacant warehouses and a struggling strip mall, was not just an eyesore.
It was a legendary Dublin DJ, François K, a very humble and talented guy who managed to meld huge melodic vibes into stripped down warehouse techno.
If that is not enough, they added, the center and the houses around it lie directly in the approach to a landing strip for a warehouse of Airbus, the European jet manufacturer.
When the city began its project to redo every corner with a wheelchair ramp — 97,664 have been finished so far — the cartoonist Ben Katchor drew a strip imagining a warehouse where the old, decommissioned street corners could be visited and even purchased.
The failed strip malls, closed warehouses, abandoned big-box stores and moon-cratered parking lots.
