Author: Magali Regis

Gardens in the News

Catch up on the latest about community gardens in the news in our media round-up! Gabriel Byrne, Electeds Try to Save Elizabeth St. Garden from New Threat Bedford+Bowery, 9/22/16 Residents Protest Plans to Turn Elizabeth Street Garden Into Housing Development…

Elizabeth Street Garden Threatened by Development Plan

NYCCGC supports Elizabeth Street Garden in its call for the City to rescind the RFP at the Elizabeth Street Garden. The City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) issued a Request for Proposals (RFP), a move to replace the Elizabeth…

Court Rules Against Boardwalk Community Garden, Victim of a 2013 Taking

In the early morning hours of Dec. 28, 2013, a construction crew sent by the City of New York and NYSE-listed developer iStar Financial bulldozed a decades-old community garden. This lawsuit was brought on behalf of nearly fifty local West Coney Island community…

August General Meeting, 8/18, 6:30pm

Join us for our August General Meeting! Thursday, August 18th, 6:30pm-8:30pm at Carrie McCracken TRUCE Community Garden, 143 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, Manhattan

NYC Food Policy Center Interview with NYCCGC Exec Aziz Dehkan

Alexina Cather from the NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College spoke with our Executive Director Aziz Dehkan about his commitment to food justice, community organizing, and the ambition of the New York City Community Garden Coalition.

NYCCGC Goes to Moscow

NYC Community Gardens featured at the 1st Moscow International Forum, 16 October 2014 By Magali Regis, NYCCGC Board Member I was invited to participate in the 1st Moscow International Forum. The theme this year was: Culture – Look into the…