BROOKLYN COMMUNITY DISTRICT 5 CHESTNUT STREET GARDEN (9 Chestnut St, Block 4104 Lot 23) ASHFORD VARIETY GARDEN (330 Ashford, Block 3999 Lot 19) GLENMORE GROWS! (492 Glenmore Avenue, block 3725, lot 12) A NEW COMMUNITY SPACE IN ASHFORD TEACHING GARDEN (Ashford Street, Block 4000 Lot 3) CITYLINE/EAST NEW YORK! Cypress Hills Development Corporation created new gardens on Block 4206 Lot 1 these four sites with 596 Acres support, created through interim 596 Acres worked with the Bangla- use agreements with NYC Housing Preservation and Development. deshi American Community Development and Youth Services to get City Council District 30 permission from the MTA to create a pocket park on the roof of the A train CORNER COMPOSTING AT 511 LIBERTY AVE? tunnel. The corner had been a Block 3962 Lot 34 fenced-off dumping site for 20 years Vere and Liz are two neighbors and Master ELDERT AVENUE and now is an always-open gathering Composters who would love to see this space. Thanks to GreenLab Studio and DCAS-owned lot turned into a community garden JAMAICA AVENUE Grain Architects for design and and composting site. If you’re interested in professional support, the Citizens getting involved, contact Vere at City Council Committee and Brooklyn Community [email protected] or 347-432-4510. District 37 Foundation for funding fence-removal and insurance and the New York BUSHWICK AVENUE AY Restoration Project for coordinating FULTON STREET building and supplying a crew! ATLANTIC AVENUE JEROME STREET SCHENCK AVENUE RUBY STREET NORTH CONDUIT AVENUE City Council PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE District 32 AUTUMN AVENUE EUCLID AVENUE PITKIN AVENUE ESSEX STREET EAST NEW YORK AVENUE VAN SINDEREN AVENUE VERMONT STREET MOTHER GASTON BOULEVARD 78th STREET City Council BLAKE AVENUE District 42 FOUNTAIN AVENUE ATKINS AVENUE 155th AVENUE ELTON STREET NEW LOTS AVENUE SCHENCK AVENUE LINDEN BLVD. FLATLANDS AVENUE A FORMER GARDEN REVIVED? Block 3775 Lot 150 VAN SICLEN AVENUE For over a year and a half neighbors have NEW LOTS AVENUE AT ELTON STREET built an incredible campaign to get access Block 4313 Lot 6 to this corner lot - which used to be SHORE PARKWAYEast GREENWAY New York Restoration is a Local Bradford Gardens, closed down by the City Development Corporation working around 2002 - to reinvigorate it as the on transforming the space under the Eden Learning Garden. Community Board LOUISIANA AVENUE elevated train tracks into a space for 5 has formally supported a new garden skateboarding training and work- here already! If you want to help, call shops for youth. Contact the Director Dierell at 347-863-8694. Melinda at mperkins@enyresto- ration.org or 718-676-5920. Fresh Creek Urban Renewal Area CITY OWNED VACANT LAND Boundary Dept. of Housing Preservation & Dev. (HPD) NYC Dept. of Transportation Dept. of Citywide Admin. Services (DCAS) City Council District NYC Human Resources Admin. 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Community Gardens MAP DESIGN: JOSEPH LAGRAND SEAVIEW AVE. 596acres.org MAY 2015 DATA SOURCE: http://livinglotsnyc.org/about/living-lots-nyc-data/ LivingLotsNYC.org HPD SELECTS 18 GARDENS FOR POTENTIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has requested proposals for housing from developers for 181 sites – 18 with active gardens on them Vacant lots and gardens in HPD jurisdiction (Total: 964) Vacant lots and gardens that HPD identified as potential development sites, New Infill Homeownership Opportunities Program and Neighborhood Construction Program Request For Qualifications (RFQ), Addendum 1, Jan. 14, 2015, http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/ Harlem Valley developers/NIHOP-NCP-RFQ.shtml Manhattan - Community District 10 - Block 1919 Lot 5 Harlem Grown - Greenhouse (Total: 181) Manhattan - Community District 10 - Block 1918 Lot 51 Jackie Robinson Community Garden Vacant lots not included in RFQ Manhattan - Community District 11 - Block 1771 Lots 1 & 2 (Total: 783) Gardens that HPD identified as potential development sites (Total: 18) Pleasant Village Community Garden Manhattan - Community District 11 - Block 1815 Lots 5 & 6 Electric Ladybug Community Garden Manhattan - Community District 10 - Block 1827 Lot 14 La Casita Verde Brooklyn - Community District 1 - Block 2147 Lot 1 Tranquility Farm Brooklyn - Community District 3 - Block 1761 Lot 74 EL Garden Brooklyn - Community District 4 - Block 3172 Lot 12 New Harvest Brooklyn - Community District 3 Patchen Community Square Block 1755 Lots 55, 56 & 57 Brooklyn - Community District 3 - Block 1652 Lot 39 McKinley's Children's Garden 462 Halsey Community Garden Halsey, Ralph & Howard Community Garden Queens - Community District 12 Brooklyn - Community District 3 - Block 1664 Lot 40 Brooklyn - Community District 3 - Block 1668 Lot 48 Block 10150 Lot 1 Imani Garden Brooklyn - Community District 8 Block 1342 Lot 8 Brownsville Student Farm Isabahlia Ladies of Elegance Brooklyn - Community District 16 - Block 3521 Lots 72, 73 & 74 Brooklyn - Community District 16 Block 3537 Lot 19 Green Valley Community Garden & Farmers' Market Ten Neighbors Garden Brooklyn - Community District 16 - Block 3857 Lot 1 Brooklyn - Community District 16 Block 3536 Lot 51 Map designed by Joseph LaGrand for 596 Acres. 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