In the three years since the grant launched, recipients have planned programs like community gardens and tree planting at their campuses. Applications will close March 23.
‘If you wait for the city to do it for you, you’re going to be waiting forever,’ Mike Young, founder of the Padre Plaza Community Success Garden. ‘Why are we…
Some community gardens have been slow to accept new rules for participating in the Parks Department’s GreenThumb program, but others say the city’s support is crucial to navigating the impact…
From community gardens between high-rises to an island in the middle of the harbor to abandoned underground chambers, there’s no shortage of ideas for where a growing city might find…
Thanks to city policy, $3,200 in tax arrears became a $500,000 debt and a community garden was ravaged. A sale of similar tax liens is scheduled for this week.
For months volunteers at dozens of community gardens have wondered which ones might be targeted for affordable housing. Our partners at Brooklyn Deep were in the room when gardeners learned…
The city has identified 181 small city-owned sites for potential affordable-housing development. Eighteen currently have community gardens on them. Ten of those gardens are in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
On a list of 100 parcels the administration has targeted for affordable housing development, community gardeners say 17 are “active, thriving” open spaces. Updated!
