Category: NYCCGC News

Moratorium on signing the new license agreement

On Saturday, May 18, we held a Community Garden Town Hall at St Mark’s Church to discuss the new GreenThumb license agreement mailed to the garden representatives on the week of April 15. More than 130 people from across the…

Changes to the new GreenThumb license

NYCCGC has reviewed the 2019 GreenThumb License sent the week of April 15th via mail to the primary garden contacts. The bold italics represent changes from the 2014 license agreement. Please share with your garden membership, and address your comments…

New Licenses for Community Gardens Released

The new licenses for community gardens are out! We are currently reviewing the new terms and will be in touch soon about how they may affect you. As gardeners, our first interest is to gardens. Legal language can be confusing and…

Gardens Rising RFP: Land Surveyor

The NYC Community Garden Coalition is seeking qualification statements and price quotes from qualified land surveyors to complete land surveys on an as-needed basis of project sites scheduled for improvements under the “Community Gardens Green Infrastructure Improvements” project. This effort…

Giving Growing

Cooling air and freezing ground give us time to reflect on the past year and plan for the coming season. Many of our City’s community gardens are in trouble, under threat of demolition that we as a coalition have challenged at every…

Support J.D. Wilson Memorial Garden at CB10

Parks has filed to acquire two privately owned parcels on the site of J.D. Wilson Memorial Garden on West 122nd Street. With the Uniform Land Use Review Process (ULURP) certified, the process has formally begun. The application will now go…

Charter Review: Manhattan Public Hearing

The 2019 Charter Revision Commission is at work, holding public hearings in each borough to solicit the public’s ideas for improving city government – and at 6:00 pm next Thursday, Sept. 27, at the City Council Chambers in City Hall, it’s…

Garden Survey

Recently GreenThumb sent a survey asking Community Gardens questions ahead of receiving new licenses. The City will be issuing new 4-year licenses for our gardens in December. We believe these agreements should have input from the gardeners. We are all volunteers working…

New York City Charter Revision Hearings

For the rest of September, the City Council is conducting citywide, borough-based hearings on the Revision of the City Charter. This holds major implications for determining how Land Use (including ULURP) decisions are made and how local Community Boards, Borough…