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 [...]
Ten New Community Controlled Spaces Take the Places of Vacant Lots in 2014 Alone
Through our staff’s facilitation and the efforts of neighbors across the City, since January 1, 2014, ten new official community spaces have been created: 1278 Myrtle Avenue (Bushwick, Brooklyn, licensed & transferred to the Parks Department); Glenmore Grows (East NY, [...]
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 [...]
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