Taking Community Gardens In NYC
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- Subject: Taking Community Gardens In NYC
- From: "* J* G* <l*@igc.apc.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:16:19 -0500
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Mayor Rudolph Giuliani giuliani@www.ci.nyc.ny.us is planning to auction
off even more community garden sites in New York in May.
New York has 11,000 vacant lots which are not being gardened and maintained
by New Yorkers in all 5 buroughs. This auction will, I believe, sell off
over 100 sites in Manhattan.
The Mayor says he's "for people not plants" and thus he's selling the
gardens off to developers to build housing. (Some of it will be "affordable
housing", but not a whole lot.) He doesn't seem to understand that being
for people should also be about their gardens and their food supply.
If you want to support New York's community gardeners, please write the
Mayor before January 13 when there is an important meeting that may include
garden preservation.
Thank You and a Bright Solstice to All
Libby
libby@igc.apc.org Libby J. Goldstein phone & fax: 215-465-8878
Philadelphia USDA zone 7A Sunset zone 32
My garden must be n-dimensional if it's out here in cyberspace.
