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Turning Blight Into Green Pastures

May 6, 2014 by Kaara Baptiste

Coney Resident Plots Garden Rescue for Vacant Lot By Kaara Baptiste Last year, Minico Roberts, a longtime Coney Islander, started thinking about creating a new community garden in her neighborhood. She was inspired by her experience as a culinary educator at farmers markets in the Bronx and East New York. “I was working out of […]

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It’s well known that New York City is short on space. The city is filled with skyscrapers, overcrowded apartments and small squares of grass that double as parks. Yet, from midtown to the farthest flung reaches of subway and bus lines, unused spaces are a constant. What happens when a space is forgotten, and how do New Yorkers fight to reclaim it? Vacant lots, deserted buildings and empty storefronts: this is a study in the before, the during and the after of those abandoned spaces.
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