Ben Nadler of Kinetic Carnival talks to some of the folks at Surfside Gardens in Coney Island about the future of their community garden as development plans threaten to convert their beautiful garden to low-cost housing.
During Rudy Giuliani’s mayoralty in the 1990s, garden closures were at their highest rates, culminating in 1998 when the Giuliani administration tried to auction off all of the community gardens on city-owned property.
But a judge stopped Giuliani’s plan from moving forward. In 2002, a compromise was reached between the attorney general’s office and the city that handed jurisdiction over many gardens to the parks department, protecting them from development. Many others have been bought by private organizations like the Trust for Public Land, but a few dozen or so remain under the control of HPD.
Read the full article here.
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Filed under: Kinetic Carnival | Tagged: 11224, ben nadler, community gardens, coney island, hdp, Kinetic Carnival, more gardens, surfside gardens
Is this one of your videocasts?
Hi Xris. All the videos on this blog are part of the series “A Walk Around the Blog”, produced by Brooklyn Independent Television.
Sorry about my confused comment. I couldn’t see the embedded video when I visited the page from work.
I just posted a link on my blog. Great work!
Oh, I see.
Yours was the first comment on this blog, so it was exciting even if I didn’t quite get it.
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