A Bronx organization for the developmentally disabled claims in a lawsuit that it was rejected from a Brooklyn office building because of discrimination.
Gateway Counseling Center claims it tried to lease the space in Dumbo, but the deal fell through when Two Trees Management realized that Gateway works with Special Olympians.
The 2011 rejection “was an act of bigotry against developmentally disabled citizens . . . whom [they] simply did not want in their upscale artistic/commercial space,” Gateway says in a $3 million Bronx Supreme Court suit.
Two Trees justified the rejection by saying they don’t rent space for use as schools. The company added it regularly rents to non-profits and social-service groups and slammed the lawsuit in a statement as “baseless allegations by a group looking for a payout.”