Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Asks Mayor to Save Gardens
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams wrote a letter on February 23 to Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been asking for active community gardens operating under “interim use agreements” to be removed from the lists sites offered to developers [...]
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer Asks Mayor to Save Gardens, Preserve Land for Community Land Trust
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer wrote a letter on February 10 to the Mayor and Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been. She supports gardens staying where they are and the use of precious public land to for community [...]
Garden Oasis: 1100 Bergen Street Block Community Garden Now Protected In Perpetuity
Today, a garden that has been an oasis in the Crown Heights neighborhood for over 34 years has found a permanent institutional home. The 1100 Bergen Community Garden, located on Bergen Street between Nostrand and New York Avenues, is [...]
Council Member Antonio Reynoso Asks Mayor to Save Gardens
Council Member Antonio Reynoso just sent a letter to Mayor de Blasio and the Department of Sanitation, asking to have El Garden and the other seventeen active community gardens on the Housing Preservation and Development Request for Qualifications list inviting [...]
Gardens on Housing Preservation and Development’s (HPD) List of Sites Available for Housing Development
** updated May 25, 2015 ** Last week, NYC Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) published a list of 181 City-owned properties included in a Request for Qualifications for developers to build rental and ownership housing within the limits set [...]
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