Save the Boardwalk Community Garden!

The Issue

As the picture shows the Boardwalk Community gardeners of Coney Island have grown back from hurricane Sandy and are asking you to help them stay alive from rushed developement.

We are asking our represantatives to to say no, or to table the Coney Island Amphitheater resolutions until 2014 when the newly elected Council member and Mayor can work out a just scenario for the Boardwalk community gardeners.

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The Issue

As the picture shows the Boardwalk Community gardeners of Coney Island have grown back from hurricane Sandy and are asking you to help them stay alive from rushed developement.

We are asking our represantatives to to say no, or to table the Coney Island Amphitheater resolutions until 2014 when the newly elected Council member and Mayor can work out a just scenario for the Boardwalk community gardeners.

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Aresh Javadi
Aresh Javadi
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“ACTION ALERT: BOARDWALK GARDEN IS BEING BULLDOZED by AZIZ DEHKAN on DECEMBER 28, 2013 TO DO, Please: CALL 311 Tell mayor Bloomberg thanks & goodbye! Ask de Blasio to bring back justice for our Boardwalk community gardeners! Keep sending out this petition. Come over to support the community gardeners today, come to press conference more info at http://nyccgc.org/2013/12/action-alert-boardwalk-garden-is-being-bulldozed/ At 5am Saturday morning the developer – iStar – started to destroy 16 years of community gardening effort. The Garden survived Hurricane Sandy but not the destruction by machines intent on leveling a thriving community garden. On Thursday they locked the garden. This morning, under cover of darkness, the developer is moving to take possession. The community and the New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) ask: if the building of this amphitheater were legal why would they come at 5am to do this? In what other part of the city would construction projects start under cover of darkness? And if the city were true to their word about finding another garden for these people why at 5am would they be destroying personal property? The community gardeners support community revitalization and see the Boardwalk Community Garden as an exemplary grassroots initiative by the people of Coney Island. They are asking the new administration to support the rights of the working people of Coney Island to feed themselves and exist alongside new revitalization. The Community and the NYCCGC will not let this action stand without a fight. SUPPORT THE GARDEN! Where: Boardwalk community garden. 2071, 22nd street between Surf avenue and the Boardwalk. Coney Island Subway Stops F,N,D, & Q When: NOW! TODAY DECEMBER 28TH. On site contact person: Yury at 917-204-0440 or 347-206-9620 For More info on legal and detailed info please contact New York City Community Garden Coalition (NYCCGC) Executive Director: Aziz Dehkan at 973-222-5413 or eighty20group@gmail.com News coverage of the garden’s struggle and the questionable legality of the amphitheater: Brooklyn Paper – “People’s Playground planters say Childs Plan eating parkland without proper approvals” NY 1 – “Brooklyn Amphitheater Threatens Community Garden’s Future” News 12 – “Locals Rally to Save Coney Island Garden” ”
Aziz Dehkan
Aziz Dehkan
Executive Director of NYC Community Garden Coalition -NYCCGC
Responded
“Please sign the petition and come to the next City Council meeting: Wednesday 12-18 - 10am in the Committee Room at City Hall (Committee on Land Use) and Thursday 12-19 - 1:30pm in the City Hall Council Chambers (City Council Hearing) Let the City Council know we are drawing the line: “Enough is enough!” Join us. If we don’t take a stand here, your community garden may be next. YES! I CAN ATTEND. FILL IN THIS FORM TO LET US KNOW HOW YOU CAN HELP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Oj0UKbA3OuKKHdLRo_c9JBwW5_DNKm9KAmUuGV5ILeI/viewform ”
Mark Weprin (Chair of Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises)
Mark Weprin (Chair of Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises)
Chair of Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises
Melissa Mark-Viverito
Melissa Mark-Viverito
Chair of Parks Council
Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor of New York City

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Petition created on December 17, 2013