Garden and community space in Bed-Stuy
We've started a petition to advocate taking Patchen Community Square off the list of HPD sites to develop. Please sign and share!!
We are joining New York City Community Garden Coalition and gardeners from around the city (including the 17 endangered ones) and other supporters to rally at City Hall on February 10th at 9am in an effort to make our garden permanent. Please join us to support our community gardens.
deBlasio has created an initiative for the city of building 80,000 affordable units and has asked HPD (Housing, Preservation and Development) to review it's land and make a list of sites to be developed on as a part of this. Unfortunately, Patchen Community Square is on this list. This means that developers can submit qualifications for the design and construction of development projects on these sites. The garden is small, and zoned 6B, so if a developer would build on it, they would create approximately 10 total units. Only 2 of these units would qualify as affordable units, making the remaining units luxury apartments.
We need your help campaigning for this NOT to happen. Please call our City Council Member to call HPD and request that Patchen Community Square be removed from the list and remain a community garden. If you have any contacts with anyone in the press, please tell them too! The more we publicize this, the better chance we have to remain a garden!
Robert E. Cornegy, City Council Member
RCornegy@council.nyc.gov
718-919-0740
(ask for the Chief of Staff or the Legislative Director)
Tremaine Wright, Community Board 3 Chairperson
bk03@cb.nyc.gov
718-622-6601
Annette Robinson, State Assembly Member
RobinsonA@assembly.state.ny.us
District Office: 718-399-7630
Albany Office: 518-455-5474
Eric L. Adam, Brooklyn Borough President
askeric@brooklynbp.nyc.gov
Office: 718-802-3700
Diana Reyna, Deputy Brooklyn Borough President
dreyna@brooklynbp.nyc.gov
Office: 718-802-3700
We're excited to announce our second workshop with Artfully Unforgotten on Saturday, October 18th from 11-2. Create new art with your old photos with Andrea Radulescu by transferring them onto recycled materials. You can bring your own photos or we will have some handy.
Please stop by, bring the family and dig into art!
We're excited to announce our first workshop with Artfully Unforgotten on Sunday, October 12th from 11-2. Please stop by, bring the family and dig into art!
