At 06:10 PM 5/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>sanet-mg-digest Sunday, May 3 1998 Volume 01 : Number 298
>In this issue:
Threat to New York City's 741 Green Thumb Community Gardens
>Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 23:38:37 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@sunsite.unc.edu>
>Subject: Threat to New York City's 741 Green Thumb Community Gardens
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: gardens@cybergal.com <gardens@cybergal.com>
>>>>To: The Mighty Email Army <gardens@cybergal.com>
>>>>Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 3:20 PM
>>>>Subject: URGENT URGENT URGENT URGENT
>>>>>Dear Garden Defenders: I have outrageous news. The Giuliani
Administration
>>>>>has moved to ELIMINATE all 741 Green Thumb community gardens in the city.
>>>>>More details below, but first, AN EMPHATIC AND URGENT CALL TO ACTION:
>>>>>Rudy Giuliani wants to destroy EVERY GARDEN IN THE CITY -- to sacrifice
>>>>>these precious community-controlled spaces to the whims of private greed.
>>>>To express your outrage, CALL AND FAX the following numbers, beginning
>>>>>immediately, at the highest possible level of intensity!!!!! (This list
>>>>will be expanded soon.)
>>>>>DEPUTY MAYOR RANDY MASTRO
>>>>>Phone (212) 788-3137
>>>>>fax (212) 788-3142
>>>>>HPD COMMISSIONER RICHARD ROBERTS
>>>>>phone (212) 863-6100
>>>>>fax (212) 267-2565
>>>>>HPD SITE SELECTION, MARY BOLTON
>>>>>phone (212) 863-8492
>>>>>fax (212) 863-8504
>>>>>As events progress over the coming days, I will update you frequently.
>>>>>Here's more of what we know now, brought to you by the LESC Garden
Group's
>>>>>David Crane:
>>>>>On Friday, April 24, Mary Bolton, Assistant Commissioner for Planning and
>>>>>Policy at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and
>>>>>Development (HPD) faxed a request to the members of the City Land
>>>>Committee, requesting "emergency holds" on the 741 city-owned lots
>>>>>leased to community gardeners under the Green Thumb program.
>>>>>The City Land Council could approve HPD's request as soon as Friday, May
>>>>>8th, an action that would effectively end New York City's community
>>>>>gardening program.
>>>>>If this plan goes through, the 741 Green Thumb gardens throughout the
city
>>>>>would lose all legitimacy in the eyes of the Giuliani Administration.
This
>>>>>could mean a variety of things. At a minimum, it reduces all community
>>>>>gardens to squatting status, like the Chico Mendez Mural Garden
(bulldozed
>>>>>12/30/97) or the Umbrella Garden (sold at auction 3/19/98). At the worst,
>>>>>the City forcibly evicts gardeners from the land. Somewhere in the middle
>>>>is the certain loss of the "transfer to Parks" option, established a
>>>>few months ago in response to community pressure, which offered the
>>>>best hope to date for preserving large numbers of the 400 community
>>>>gardens originally slated for destruction.
>>>>>More information soon -- Leslie
>>>>>PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS CALL TO ACTION AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE. The Mighty
>>>>>Email Army is a project of the Lower East Side Collective
>>>>>(http://home.earthlink.net/~aliceme/lesc). Send info, feedback, and the
>>>>>addresses of new recruits to me at gardens@cybergal.com.
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