Metro

Nonprofit bailed out

The taxpayer-funded Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone forgave a $2.75 million loan to troubled nonprofit Alianza Dominicana for construction of its long-stalled headquarters building.

Although Alianza had been making payments on the 2008 loan, UMEZ decided to turn it into a grant to finish the $30 million Triangle Building headquarters, a UMEZ spokesman said.

The building will house social-services provider Alianza and a Dominican cultural center.

At the same time, UMEZ killed a previous $2.6 million grant to Alianza, which had been on hold amid a scandal involving Alianza’s finances.