After years of neglect and abuse, locals and community volunteers of Goodwin Place have come together and transformed a derelict Bushwick park space into the Good Life Garden.
NYC Service and Citizens Committee for New York City have launched the ninth season of the Love Your Block Grant Campaign—what would you do for your block with $1,000 and support from the city?!
A few weeks ago, we told you about the crisis facing Bushwick's El Garden, one of the 17 community gardens on public land across the city at risk of being leveled to create new housing developments
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