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NYCommons Request for Neighborhood Collaborators

This is an invitation from NYCommons to collaborate on workshops to help New Yorkers learn to protect and expand publicly owned and controlled land and buildings in our neighborhoods. NYCommons is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development [...]

News from the Acres: 17 gardens that took the place of vacant lots via 596 Acres’ facilitation became permanently protected community gardens this month!

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 [...]

News from the Acres: 17 gardens that took the place of vacant lots via 596 Acres’ facilitation became permanently protected community gardens over the holiday!

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 [...]

New York City Real Estate Investment Cooperative January 2016 Update

Dear NYC REIC Members, Happy 2016! The first newsletter of the new year focuses on our Governance! Read on for ways to get involved as we build our cooperative and formalize our structure. WE NEED YOUR HELP Scroll down [...]

NYCommons Call for Designers

This is a request for proposals for graphic and interaction design support for NYCommons.org, a website tool modeled on LivingLotsNYC.org to be built on its source code by the 596 Acres team. The site will display information about five [...]

Gardens Being Transferred to NYC Parks!

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 [...]

City Council Hearing Today on Proposed Urban Agriculture Advisory

The New York City Council Committee on Economic Development is holding a hearing at 1pm today at 250 Broadway on the 14th Floor on a proposed bill that would create an Urban Agriculture Advisory Committee to advise on “matter[s] [...]

Community Boards in 2015!

In 2015, 596 Acres continued its crucial outreach project to city community boards, teaching critical skills and raising awareness about their role in expanding public access to vacant properties. Thanks to a grant from the New York Community Trust, [...]

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