defending gardens

  • Defending Community Gardens Campaign 2010

    Esperanza Community Garden Bulldozed Feb 2000 “East Village Gardens” Condo built on Esperanza Community Garden Site read more

  • Response to Benepe Op-Ed

    Time’s Up! read your 8/11/10 NY Post Op-Ed with great dismay.  There is a certain Orwellian ‘war is peace’ quality to it that separates fact from reality.  You write that “not a single Parks garden has been lost.” You are clearly making a distinction between Green Thumb Park Department protected gardens and others which are… read more

  • Defending Gardens

    Locked down to save the gardens (June 2002) Saving and Defending Gardens Over the last 20 years, local people in neighborhoods from the South Bronx to the East Village to Bedford-Stuyvesant have turned abandoned, refuse-strewn lots into marvelous gardens, green oases of hope in decaying, often redlined districts. Along with serving as an outdoor venue,… read more