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10
Mar
Brooklyn, NY 11225 United States
Visit the 596 Acres table at Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s annual Making Brooklyn Bloom conference! We can strategize about transforming the vacant lot in your life into a community growing spot. For free admission, download and bring their event flier here. About Making Brooklyn Bloom: This year’s conference theme is GREENING TOGETHER: PEOPLE, PLANTS, JUSTICE. Workshops include community conversations regarding issues of urban ecology, wellness, stewardship, and the connections required of concerned citizens engaged in transforming lives and neighborhoods. In addition…
11
Feb
Brooklyn, NY 11215 United States
Join Risa Shoup, ED Space works, Inc. as she explores with and brainstorms about developing your own space and the creating & managing of capital campaigns. What does it mean to advocate against cultural displacement and who are our allies in the business community? Are their public resources that we can take advantage of in developing a space? Share stories of working/making in non-traditional spaces. With Stephanie Alvarado and Mara Kravitz from 596 Acres. Jimena Martinez from CUMBE, and Katy Rubin from…
05
Feb
596 Acres invites you to our very first FB Live Event! You can plug into it through our event on facebook here. As a way to stay more connected and engaged with our online community and supporters we are hosting an one hour FB live session to answer questions about transforming vacant lots and buildings, unused street ends in your neighborhood, and how to protect existing places. We love to share our strategies for community land access and hope this…
02
Dec
New York , NY 10027 United States
Come build, share, and celebrate with fellow land access advocates who are organizing with their neighbors for access to vacant spaces to transform them into community places! You’ll get a chance to learn from folks who have succeeded in successfully gaining access and folks who are beginning their journey to land stewardship! This is a great chance to share stories, learn from each others’ experiences, and discover partnership opportunities. Let’s gather to celebrate each other’s work and envision goals for…
03
Nov
New York, NY 10035 United States
Urban Renewal has been among the most destructive urban policies in the US, destroying thousands of so called “blighted” neighborhoods and displacing over a million residents within predominantly lowincome communities of color. This panel addresses the lasting impact of this policy on our city, and the role of grassroots groups in successfully intervening in this framework to create more just community spaces. The panel presents the recently published New York City Atlas of Urban Renewal —a critical cartographic account of…
03
Nov
New York, NY 10035 United States
The most impacted people are in the best position to lead and sustain the development of our neighborhoods! In this session facilitated by Stephanie and Mara of 596 Acres, hear from these local community land access advocates turning vacant lots across NYC into community spaces, or supporting that work with accurate data: Alexis Smallwood, Edgemere Coalition Community Garden in Edgemere, the Rockaways, Queens: Alexis has been leading the campaign to transform a vacant city-owned lot on Beach 43rd Street on the bay…
28
Oct
Long Island City, NY 11101 United States
Facing overwhelming funding deficits, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has begun to transfer its properties to other ownership structures through programs such as the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) and has agreed to allow private developers to add new buildings to existing NYCHA campuses via the NextGen program, the de Blasio administration’s version of infill. In the short-term, these programs are designed to bring money and renovations to NYCHA campuses that have been underfunded for decades. But inviting private…
27
Oct
Long Island City, NY 11101 United States
Gentrification is rapid and pervasive, targeting affordable housing –we’re interested in actionable points to push back, to organize and resist the immense forces of coffee shops, luxury condos, and storage facilities! Self Storage NYC has put together a group of educators to create a workshop on actionable steps to resisting gentrification. The panel consists of: · Mara Kravitz from the NYC community group 569 acres · Oksana Mironova from Community Service Society · Lauren Cullen from Queens Anti Gentrification Project…
26
Oct
New York, NY 10012 United States
Strategize about how to transform vacant lots and buildings in your life into thriving community spaces with 596 Acres! We will be tabling at the sore. Come by to talk about what happens when NYers steward community places in our city, how to protect the ones we have, and how to make more in any neighborhood. This is part of 1% for the Planet’s NYC Market Meetup.
26
Oct
New York,
This summer, elected advocates introduced a potential law (view it here in the “attachments”!) that would require NYC’s Department of City Planning to develop a comprehensive urban agriculture plan by July 2018 to promote its expansion in our city. City Council’s Land Use Committee is having a hearing on the bill. Come share what should go in the plan and how it should be developed so that it supports you, NYC’s resident community growers! We will offer specific ways the plan and…
