Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC’s neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other. Here in Bushwick, an online petition is going around to save El Garden, a new community garden that just opened last year at 120 Jefferson St., from this very fate.
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Bushwick’s “El Garden” Could Be Razed to Create New Housing. Sign the Petition to Save It
Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC's neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other
Bushwick’s “El Garden” Could Be Razed to Create New Housing. Sign the Petition to Save It
Increasing affordable housing and creating community green space are both laudable goals to pursue in the ongoing evolution of NYC's neighborhoods, but a recent decision from city hall to invite developers to turn community gardens across the city into construction sites for new affordable housing seems to pit the two objectives against each other
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