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…
Elizabeth Street Garden Filed A Lawsuit
Elizabeth Street Garden (ESG), ESG Chair Renee Green, and the Garden’s creator Allan Reiver have filed a lawsuit against the City of New York and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) challenging their actions regarding environmental quality review of the…
Mayor De Blasio: Protect Mandela Garden
A decision in the lawsuit to protect Mandela Garden from development could come as early as next week, and we have one more chance to tell the Mayor how critical this resource is before a decision is made. We’d like…
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…