The NYCHA Garden Awards Ceremony Was Held at a Venue Other Than City Hall
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Vol. 32, No. 4 First Class U.S. Postage Paid — Permit No. 4119, New York, N.Y. 10007 April 2002 39th Annual Garden Competition Awards Ceremony Deputy Mayor Walcott and Chairman Hernandez Vow To Bring Ceremony Back To City Hall 2001 GARDEN COMPETITION AWARD-WINNERS CITYWIDE WINNERS FLOWER: Renew Your Spirit Garden, Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses, South Brooklyn VEGETABLE: Garden of Venus, South Jamaica Houses, Queens CHILDREN’S THEME: Tiny Toon Rainbow Children’s Garden, Union Avenue Consolidation, the Bronx SOUTH BROOKLYN – FLOWER GARDENS 1st Prize: Beach Front Garden #1, Coney Island Houses 2nd Prize: New Beginning Garden, Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses 3rd Prize: Shining Light Garden, Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses Honorable Mention: Garden of Joy, Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses SOUTH BROOKLYN – VEGETABLE GARDENS 1st Prize: Green Thumb Garden, Marlboro Houses 2nd Prize: Fajardo Garden, Breukelen Houses 3rd Prize: Puerto Rico Garden, Breukelen Houses Honorable Mention: Growth of God Garden, Marlboro Houses Special Achievement: Garden of Plenty, Marlboro Houses SOUTH BROOKLYN – CHILDREN’S THEME GARDENS 1st Prize: Flowers of Faith Garden, Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses 2nd Prize: Beauty At The Bay Garden, Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses 3rd Prize: Hudson’s Vegetable Garden, Marlboro Houses BREAKING NEW GROUND Department of Community Operations Deputy General Manager Hugh B. Spence praised NYCHA residents and staff at the 39th Annual Garden Competition Awards Ceremony, WEST BROOKLYN – FLOWER GARDENS 1st Prize: F. Watts Sunshine Garden, Wyckoff Gardens while Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott (center) and Chairman Tino Hernandez applauded. Inset (top to 2nd Prize: Sweet Success Gardeners, Louis Armstrong Houses bottom): The Citywide Flower, Vegetable, and Children’s Theme Garden Winners. Honorable Mention: Mr. And Mrs. Lucas’ Garden, In Memory of Mr. And Mrs. Lucas, Marcy Houses By Eileen Elliott pring has sprung with the help of more than 600 dedicated New York City Housing Authority WEST BROOKLYN – VEGETABLE GARDENS 1st Prize: Our Neighborhood Garden, Marcy Houses (NYCHA) gardeners who came to the Fashion Institute of Technology on March 26, 2002 for the 39th 2nd Prize: Bengie Vegetable Garden, Sumner Houses SAnnual Garden Competition Awards Ceremony. Originally scheduled for September, the event was 3rd Prize: Neighborhood Garden, Borinquen Plaza delayed this year because of the attacks on the World Trade Center, and for the first time in the long history Honorable Mention: Good News Garden, Stuyvesant Gardens of the program, the NYCHA Garden Awards Ceremony was held at a venue other than City Hall. WEST BROOKLYN – CHILDREN’S THEME GARDENS year. Over 82 awards were pre- Garden Program in September.” 1st Prize: Ebony Garden, Marcy Houses “Residents of all ages, cultures 2nd Prize: Twinkle Tots’ Sunshine Garden, Farragut Houses and backgrounds cultivate a plot sented at the ceremony. Chairman Hernandez called 3rd Prize: Children of Walt Whitman’s Garden, Walt Whitman Houses of land,” said Department of Com- Deputy Mayor for Policy the program, “an inspiring success Special Achievement: The Rainbow Garden, Williamsburg Houses Dennis M. Walcott brought every year,” commending NYCHA munity Operations Director for EAST BROOKLYN – FLOWER GARDENS Citywide Programs Deidra Gilliard, greetings from Mayor Michael residents and staff, among them 1st Prize: Butterfly Garden, Hope Gardens who served as Mistress of Cere- R. Bloomberg, who was attending Department of Community Oper- 2nd Prize: Give God The Glory Garden, Linden Houses monies. “Your diversity is truly memorial services for fire fighters ations Deputy General Manager 3rd Prize: Love and Peace Garden, Brownsville Houses reflected in the gardens you have lost on September 11. Hugh B. Spence, Ms. Gilliard, Honorable Mention: Garden of Faith, Brownsville Houses created and I thank you, residents “What you’ve done is a Garden Coordinator Howard EAST BROOKLYN – VEGETABLE GARDENS and staff, for all you do to help testimony to your commitment Hemmings, Program Developer 1st Prize: The Mini Plantation Garden, Pink Houses beautify our communities.” to make our lives beautiful,” Rob Bennaton, and Program Sec- 2nd Prize: John V. Garden-1, Howard Houses Mr. Walcott told the audience. retary Kathleen Thomas, for their 3rd Prize: The Garden of Eden, Hope Gardens There were 281 Flower Gar- Honorable Mention: Franboyan Garden, Hope Gardens dens, 240 Vegetable Gardens and “It is my pleasure to make sure hard work. Honorable Mention: God Bless Garden, Pink Houses 102 Children’s Theme Gardens we open the steps and the court- Mr. Spence asked the audience yard of City Hall to the NYCHA to provide a round of applause for EAST BROOKLYN – CHILDREN’S THEME GARDENS entered in the competition this 1st Prize: Mayda’s Children’s Garden of Peace, Boulevard Houses the groundskeepers, also attending, 2nd Prize: Making Choices Garden, Brownsville Houses who turned over 360 square feet 3rd Prize: Fannie’s Garden With Love, Pink Houses Inside: of soil last spring. He called STATEN ISLAND – FLOWER GARDENS • DROUGHT EMERGENCY the land where the gardens grow, 1st Prize: Balloon Abstract Garden, Todt Hill Houses FOR NYC . page 2 “sacred soil.” 2nd Prize: Pride and Joy Garden, Stapleton Houses Over 15 judges from a number • Summer Jobs For NYCHA Youth . page 3 of organizations, including the STATEN ISLAND – VEGETABLE GARDENS 1st Prize: Nature’s Wonder Garden, Mariner’s Harbor Houses • Supreme Court Upholds New York Botanical Gardens and 2nd Prize: Amedina’s Garden, Berry Houses the Audubon Society of New 3rd Prize: Green Thumb Garden, Mariner’s Harbor Houses HUD Policy . page 3 York, chose the winning gardens. • Danish Gymnasts At Jacob Riis . page 8 Continued on page 6 Continued on page 6 Page 2 THE HOUSING AUTHORITY JOURNAL April 2002 Two Residents Honored At Women’s History Celebration Message From The Mayor Rising Above and Beyond The Call Of Duty After 9/11 DROUGHT EMERGENCY DECLARED wo New York City Housing NEW YORKERS MUST CONSERVE WATER Authority (NYCHA) resi- Tdents were among those ur City is in the midst of employees honored by NYCHA’s the worst drought it has Committee On Women’s Concerns Oexperienced in a decade. at its third annual Women’s In fact, the seriousness of the History Month celebration held situation has prompted me to on March 20 at the sumptuous impose water restrictions for a Surrogate’s Court in lower Stage I Drought Emergency, Manhattan. This year’s theme for which began on April 1. Hope- Women’s History Month nation- fully everyone reading this wide was “Women Sustaining the newspaper is abiding by them. American Spirit.” These restrictions affect some 8 In her keynote address, million City residents, nearly NYCHA’s Department for Social half-a-million of whom live in Services Director Michelle Pinnock- New York City Housing Authority developments. I am asking all of Clerk encouraged those in the you to sharply moderate your water usage. audience to arrive at their own A Drought Emergency is declared when there is a reasonable definitions of the phrase, “sustain- probability that our upstate reservoirs could become strained unless ing the American spirit.” She said stringent measures are implemented to reduce water consumption. that after speaking with family Six months of unusually dry weather have left the reservoirs only and friends, she came to think of half full at a time of year when they are normally at 90 percent those words as meaning, “any Keep On Truckin’ Cheryl Bobb (left), of Throggs Neck Houses in the of capacity. With the summer months approaching, when water contribution made in the spirit of Bronx and Sylvia Carattini (right) of Johnson Houses in Manhattan, consumption increases dramatically, it is very important to pitch in the principles set forth when our both Caretakers, drove NYCHA trucks down to Ground Zero on the and help conserve water in our City. society was founded — democracy, night of the World Trade Center attacks. These women were com- New Yorkers have heeded the City’s requests for water conser- freedom, justice and equality.” mended for their work at NYCHA’s Women’s History Celebration. vation over the past months, and we have seen our water use cut The event honored NYCHA by some 30 million gallons a day. The New York City Housing women employees who went Authority, which manages 2,072 buildings in our City, has played a above and beyond the call of duty held several positions during her long way in our struggle for equal vital role. However, voluntary conservation alone can’t make up for in their response to the September tenure with NYCHA, encouraged rights and dignity in the work- the lack of rainfall, therefore we must take more stringent measures 11 tragedy. Two of those employ- the women in the audience to, place.” to increase protection of the water supply and reduce water use. ees—Cheryl Bobb and Sylvia “Go after what you want. Reach Across the nation, the month In a Stage 1 Drought Emergency there are mandated prohibitions Carattini—also live in NYCHA for the stars!” of March is set aside to recognize that direct and restrict the use of water. These prohibitions are housing. Ms. Bobb is a Caretaker And the many women in the women’s contributions. March enforced by the NYPD and the Department of Environmental at Throggs Neck Houses in the audience served as a testament to 2002 was the 21st anniversary of Protection (DEP). Activities that are not allowed include washing Bronx. She was working at Ms. Ambert’s comment that, Women’s History Month. vehicles, sidewalks, driveways or streets. It is also illegal to wash Monroe Houses, also in the “Women in America have come a graffiti from building exteriors with City water. Watering lawns is Bronx, on September 11. Ms. restricted to four hours a day, from 7 to 9 AM and 7 to 9 PM for Carattini is a Caretaker at La even numbered addresses on even dates and for odd number Guardia Houses in Manhattan.