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Advocacy Group Says Siempre Verde Community Garden Has Won Permanent Protection | The Lo-Down : News from the Lower East Side
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Photo via Siempre Verde Community Garden’s Facebook page.
There’s a new push to protect the Lower East Side’s community gardens. Here’s the note that went out yesterday from Bill LoSasso, a garden activist and member of Community Board 3:
As you may know, a Coalition has formed to pursue permanence of the community gardens within the boundaries of Community Board 3 (East Village, Lower East Side, Chinatown, Two Bridges). Our community has an wonderful abundance of community gardens which provide numerous environmental, ecological, cultural, social, historical, aesthetic, and economic benefits, and more, to our neighborhoods. If you believe that these gardens are valuable assets to our community that deserve every type of protection possible, please take 20 seconds to sign the petition below as we pursue the cause of having all gardens declared parklands and designated as part of a designated Community Gardens District. Once designated as parklands, it would take an act of t
Image via Siempre Verde Community Garden Facebook page.
Here’s a followup on the push to save the Siempre Verde Community Garden on Stanton Street. Garden activists launched a petition drive to stop a private developer and the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) from building a 16-unit apartment building with ground floor retail on the garden parcels. Three of the apartments would be affordable. Today, City Council member Margaret Chin offered her initial take on the situation.
Later this month, Community Board 3’s land use committee will be asked to consider the proposal. The project would incorporate two city-owned lots – 137 Attorney St. and 181 Stanton St. – as well as 139 Attorney St., a parcel owned by the estate of William Gottlieb, a real estate baron who accumulated a great deal of land in Lower Manhattan. Two years ago, HPD agreed to permit community members to operate an interim garden on the city-owned land until there was a viabl