Garage Art Center, Queens, New York (and Flushing Town Hall)

You're probably familiar with the trend of people hosting music events at their house.  People pay a fee which goes to the artist.

-- Concerts in Your Home

Garage Art Center in Queens has been created by Susan Lee by converting her back yard garage into a community art space ("Bayside Resident Converts Garage Into Art Gallery," Patch).

They've created a nonprofit organizational structure to operate and fund the program.

Pretty cool.

Flickr photo by Matt Kane.

Separately, Flushing Town Hall--Flushing was one of the separate towns in Queens County, before the County was amalgamated into New York City along with Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Staten Island in 1898--was renovated into a community arts space by the Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts.  

New York City owns the building and provides support for capital improvements and operations, while the FCCA manages it and operates a robust schedule of concerts, presentations, classes, exhibits, including out of a 308 seat performing arts space.  

This New York Times article, "Vintage Americana and Spicy Chicken," discusses the history of the building and how it came to be an arts center, which wasn't until 2014.