Press

SHFT
Plants Conquer Vacant Lots
July 19, 2011
Fast Company
Morgan Clendaniel
596 Acres Wants The City To Do Something Useful With Our Unused Land
July 25, 2011
ioby blog
Concrete Jungle
August 11, 2011
treehugger
Bonnie Hulkower
More Cool Highlights From Maker Faire New York 2011
September 25, 2011
Boston Society of Architects
Scott Burnham
The resourceful city, part 2: Reprogramming space
October 13, 2011
Grist
Greg Hanscom
Underwater homes: A visual guide to NYC's future floods
October 21, 2011
Shareable
Sustainable Economies Law Center
Policies for a Shareable City #9: Recreational Spaces
November 10, 2011
All That We've Met
Pauline Pechin
Paula Segal envisioned New York as the city for grown-ups
January 2, 2012, 2012
Garden Design
Laura Harmon
The King Street Lots in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York
January 16, 2012
Inhabitat
Lori Zimmer
596 Acres Helps NYC Communities Reclaim Vacant Lots and Transform Them Into Gardens
February 16, 2012
Grist
Sarah Goodyear
No vacancy: Unleashing the potential of empty urban land
March 27, 2012
The Epoch Times
Kristen Meriwether
Changing Brooklyn One Acre at a Time
March 27, 2012
National Geographic News Watch
Nicole Glass
New York Projects Aim to Make the City More Sustainable
April 17, 2012
NYC GOV tumblr
Last night, Mayor Bloomberg announced the winners of NYC BigApps 3.0
April 18, 2012
Bed-Stuy Patch
C. Zawadi Morris
462 Halsey Community Garden Celebrates Grand Opening
April 23, 2012
The Greenpoint Gazette
Peter Lang-Stanton
Floresta: Green Light District Update
April 26, 2012
El Diario
Carolina Ledezma
Reverdeciendo los pocos espacios vacíos en Los Sures
April 27, 2012
The Awesome Foundation
596 Acres – Awesome NYC’s April Grant
April 27, 2012
The New York Times
John Leland
Turning Unused Acres Green
April 27, 2012
Paisagem Fabricada
Thiago Carrapatoso
Ocupe terrenos baldios!
May 3, 2012
Brownstoner
The Hot Seat: Eric Brelsford
May 11, 2012
The Institute for Sustainable Cities
Oksana Mironova
Making Use of Vacant Lots in Brooklyn
May 13, 2012
design mind
Ernest Beck
Green Acres
May 13, 2012
Metrofocus
John Farley
Growing on Vacant Brooklyn Lots, Reclaiming Public Space
May 16, 2012
Brooklyn Independent Television
596 Acres: Brookyn Review
May 21, 2012
El Diario
Carolina Ledezma
Rescatan lotes vacíos para comunidad
May 23, 2012
On the Commons
Jay Walljasper
Let Us Now Praise Vacant Lots
June 9, 2012
The New York World
Yolanne Almanzar
Project to reclaim city-owned spaces expands to Manhattan and Queens
June 14, 2012
Edible Brooklyn
Rachel Nuwer
Lots of Opportunity
June 14, 2012
globo
Karine Tavares & Paulo Thiago de Mello
Jardins urbanos no Rio, em Paris e Nova York
June 17, 2012
Ateneo Naider
Mapeando recursos ociosos en la ciudad
July 5, 2012
Social Media Workgroup
Green My Favela and 596 Acres
July 7, 2012
EV Grieve
Claim this land!
July 9, 2012
City Atlas
Jeff Kasper
Brownfields or Vacant Lots In Your Life?
July 12, 2012
Five Borough Farm
Five Borough Farm: Seeding the Future of Urban Agriculture in New York City
July 2012
TYTHEblog
Ellie Wendell
596 Acres: community urban empowerment
July 27, 2012
Makeshift
Bruce Wallace
Open Spaces
Summer 2012 issue
Brokelyn
Sarah Barrett
How to turn a scuzzy vacant lot into a green oasis
August 1, 2012
Architect
Spontaneous Interventions #1 to #16
August 9, 2012
CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform
Rebecca Bratspies
CUNY Law Alum Paula Segal and Brooklyn’s 596 Acres
August 20, 2012
Neighborland
Spontaneous Interventions: Information
August 30, 2012
Spontaneous Interventions
596 Acres
August 2012
Bubble Up Change
Ilyse Kazar
596 Acres — Organizing the Organizers to claim public land
September 6, 2012
Inhabitat
Ayasha Guerin
596 Acres Uses Thought-Provoking Signage to Notify New Yorkers to Take Back Their Public Land
September 6, 2012
The Wave
Nicholas Briano
596 Acres Finds And Labels Lots
September 7, 2012
World Policy Blog: Arts Policy Nexus
Paula Segal
Reclaiming Unused Urban Space
September 28, 2012
Bowery Boogie
CB3 Supports Gardening in Vacant Stanton and Attorney Street Lots
October 15th, 2012
The New York Times: Green Blog
Emma Bryce
After a Year of Adoptions, Orphaned Lots Bloom
October 17, 2012
City Paper
Samantha Melamed
Vacant-land organizing in Philly going social with NYC's 596 Acres
January 7, 2013
UrbanUrban
Ekaterina Levitskaya
Место по требованию: Как в Нью-Йорке легально оккупируют пустые пространства
January 10, 2013
Shelterforce
Paula Segal
Flowers Follow
February 2013
Journal of Cleaner Production
Natalia Radywyl and Che Biggs
Reclaiming the commons for urban transformation
April 2013

GOOD
Deena Shanker
How One Nonprofit Scales the Fences of Hundreds of Acres of Publicly Owned Land
April 14, 2013