Past Tense Now: What It Meant to be a 3rd Ward Member

At Once-Promising Brooklyn Arts Center, Creative Hopes Are Dashed.  (The New York Times, 12/3/2013)

Broken promises, unfulfilled dreams.  Part continuing-education center, part incubator, 3rd Ward, in a 35,000-square-foot former warehouse on Morgan Avenue, was the first, and, it seemed, the most successful of the arts-and-entrepreneurship meccas springing up around the gentrifying parts of Brooklyn. Its co-founder, Jason Goodman, 34, had predicted that within a few years, every big city in America would have one. He told one interviewer that 3rd Ward would be a household name by 2018.