This week, we sent NYC Parks the updated design for the new park that will replace a long vacant city-owned lot, coming to downtown Far Rockaway as a result of over a year long local advocacy campaign! We are [...]
A big vacant public lot in the South Bronx, between W 169ths and 170th Streets, Nelson and Shakespeare Aves, was planned as parkland decades ago. But, funding was never allocated to this heavily disinvested area of our City to [...]
NYC Department of Parks and Recreation’s acquisition of resident-made Maple Street Community Garden is unanimously approved Grassroots advocates, public, elected officials strongly support acquisition of open space for beloved community garden in Brooklyn Contact: Mara Kravitz (718-316-6092 X3 or [...]
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 [...]
Across NYC, acres of Parks Department land sit behind fences. Dozens of Parks Department buildings are boarded up. Last Thursday, December 1, City Council’s Committee on Parks and Recreation hosted a public hearing: “An Examination of Parks Department Properties Currently [...]
Guest post by Gabriel Park, edited by Shannon Pepper A Typical Java Street Community Garden meeting Five steering committee members, plus three or four other members, show up at a bar near the garden. Some get drinks. If it’s [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Copyright 2016, 596 Acres, Inc.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
"596 Acres" and "Living Lots" are registered trademarks of the Fund for the City of New York.