Vacant Acres: A Belated Follow Up and Thank You!
Remember how great it was for us all to be together here in April at the Vacant Acres symposium? If you’ve forgotten, check out this great report-back by Rachel Dobkin with the help of participants plus photos by Marco Clausen. We at 596 Acres [...]
A Reflection from Our East NY Farms! Extern
We’ve been lucky to have Faith Titilawo with us this summer, an extern from East NY Farms! Below are her thoughts and reflections from ten weeks with us. Thank you for everything, Faith! As the summer comes to an [...]
Update from a new community-managed Parks space in Bushwick!
We got this great letter from the organizers of the space at 1278 Myrtle Ave. at the corner of Central Ave. in Bushwick. It’s been a long journey already and now they are ready to truly begin: It was [...]
Community Boards!
When an organizing group is applying to GreenThumb (a program of the Parks Department that licenses gardens on most city-owned land) earning a letter of support from the local Community Board (CB) is a key requirement and often, a [...]
Launch of UrbanReviewer.org
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: urbanreviewer.org URBAN REVIEWER: A New Tool Examining the Legacy of Urban Renewal in NYC Reviewing Past Urban Plans > Discovering Present Impact > Supporting Future Actions Brooklyn, New York – June 17, 2014 – Urban Reviewer is New [...]
Report Back from the Vacant Acres Symposium: Advocates From All Over the World!
On April 22nd and 23rd, 596 Acres and the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School co-hosted the first ever Vacant Acres Symposium, bringing together knowledgeable and passionate (and badass!) urban vacant land advocates from around the [...]
596 Acres Testimony In Support of NYC OpenFOIL Law
There’s a great bill making its way through NYC City Council that would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services to create a streamlined and centralized system through which people can request to see government documents: an OpenFOIL bill. [...]
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