Green Valley Community Farm saved from $1 sale to private developer Community garden will continue its 20-year tradition of serving fresh produce to New Yorkers Brooklyn, N.Y. — A revered Brooklyn community garden and farm was saved from demolition [...]
As The New York Times took note last Saturday, “Community gardens are the most vulnerable spaces in the city,” which makes the transfer of seventeen (17!) interim spaces created and supported through 596 Acres' advocacy this winter all the [...]
The big news first: 36 gardens were transferred to the NYC Parks Department over the winter holiday for permanent preservation. 17 of them were vacant lots that neighbors transformed with through 596 Acres' facilitation. 15 had been offered for [...]
The following gardens formerly on HPD land are being transferred to the NYC Parks Department: MANHATTAN (5) West 111th Street Harlem Garden (Electric Ladybug)** (previously on the HPD RFQ list, offered for sale to developers for $1)(covered in DNAinfo on [...]
Harlem City Council Member Inez Dickens wrote a letter on Thursday, May 21st to Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been asking for active community gardens operating under “interim use agreements” in her district to be removed from the [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
** 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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