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Re: Did you see the news about the NYC comm. gardens sale being cancelled?

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Thanks for the thanks, Sheryl McCoy.

>I was especially appalled at Giuliani's cavalier attitude towards the
various individuals trying to keep their urban community gardens intact.
Giuliani warned that communism was no longer to be tolerated in New York. 
>
>I wonder why community gardens are to be feared as tools of communism?
Maybe it means that lower middle >class and poor people might actually
improve their lives and those of the children in the neighborhood?

Yes, a truly startling off-the-cuff statement for a person alleged to be
politically savvy.  Libby Goldstein, of Philadelphia, has been posting about
this NYC problem scenario for many months to sqft an also the organic
gardening listserv.  But I haven't seen anything from her on either list
lately, so I thought I'd better pass along the good news in case she is cut
off from her ISP or something now.

>I am so glad that all the individuals and foundations were able to pay
$400,000 per acre for these important urban oases.

NYC developable land is definitely worth $400,000 an acre and probably much
more....  There are many suburban buildable lots in greater D.C., where I
live, that go for more than that esp. when broken into 1/3-acre parcels.

>This is a shameful situation, especially at a time when most mayors in
American urban communities are working to make more urban space available to
gardening and other similar natural uses for empty lots in cities across the
United States.

Indeed, in Philadelphia the city is working cooperatively with the
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society on an ambitious program to turn abandoned
city lots INTO community gardens.  They have very reassuring stats on the
decline in crime in neighborhoods where this has been done.  There is a link
to a wall-mural-painting program, too.  Something symbiotic about these two
endeavors going hand in hand.

During the Garden Writers' Association of America tour of the Philly Flower
Show last March, the PHS took us on a bus tour of the inner city to see many
of their community plots.  Quite impressive and in some cases the ONLY
decent thing about a badly blighted hood.


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