Hi all,
Sharing great news below with you...For those of you in NYC, come to our
Presentation/announcement this Monday November 2nd at 10:00am at La
Plaza Cultural Community Garden at the SW corner of 9th Street & Ave C.
Getting this grant is really huge for our neighborhood and our community
garden community. We've invited the press, politicos, electeds, local
businesses, etc. to attend but YOU are just as important if not more.
Hope to see you ;-)
cheers,
m.
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Subject: [NYC-GardensCoalition] Fwd: Announcing Gardens Rising
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:36:31 -0400
From: NYCCGC [email protected] [NYC-GardensCoalition]
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Dear Gardeners, NYCCGC is excited to announce that we are the recipient
of Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funding from
the New
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Dear Gardeners,
NYCCGC is excited to announce that we are the recipient of Community
Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funding from the New York
State Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) to undertake a
feasibility study for stormwater capture best practices within the
community gardens of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
*NYCCGC plans to formally announce Gardens Rising on November 2nd, 10am,
at La Plaza Cultural on 9th St. and Avenue C in Manhattan. All are
invited to attend. At this time, we are seeking several qualified
individuals to fill various positions
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related to this project. We will be discussing this new project at our
next general meeting, Thursday, November 19, 6:30pm, at the Neighborhood
Preservation Center: 232 E. 11th St. A full agenda will come next week
and will include open discussion about the issues facing our community
gardens, as usual.*
The study – Gardens Rising - will combine community based participation
with engineering expertise, to develop a green infrastructure study and
Master Plan to increase the permeability and stormwater capture within
forty-seven neighborhood/community gardens located in Lower Manhattan.
This is a two-phase project, the first phase is to develop a Master Plan
to combine the best of gardener expertise, landscape design,
engineering, and creative thinking with cost effectiveness and
sustainable practices. The project team will examine the feasibility,
costs, benefits and impacts of proposed stormwater capture locations and
methods to increase permeability and green space in the neighborhood
gardens to better absorb stormwater and runoff. The study area is
roughly bounded by 14th Street on the north, the East River on the east,
Delancey Street on the south, and the Bowery/Fourth Avenue on the west,
and is home to forty-seven (47) gardens measuring approximately seven
(7) acres. This Plan will be approved by October 2016 and will end phase
one. The second phase is implementation, and construction must be
completed by September 2019.
The majority of the gardens reside within an area that was severely
flooded during Superstorm Sandy and many were impacted directly by the
storm. When completed the Plan will identify projects that will
implement green infrastructure and stormwater capture systems to better
outfit these gardens and neighborhoods. Each garden has its own
governance and will be able to propose specific projects inside and
adjacent to their lot(s). Flood Zone geography dictates areas that must
be given priority.
Gardens Rising is a community based operation, all decisions will
ultimately be made by the gardeners affected, gardens can choose to
participate or not. A Steering Committee of gardeners will be elected
and make the final determinations as to the Master Plan.
This as a huge step forward for our community gardens, which are finally
being recognized as a vital environmental asset. It puts community
gardens at the center of the greening movement in New York City. *We
intend to parlay this grant into other funding to build other
sustainable systems throughout the five boroughs.*
*NYCCGC envisions this as seed money to attract more greening programs
and grants into our community.* Gardens Rising should be interwoven with
permaculture, solar energy, rat abatement policies, composting
practices, citizen science, and other ideas and practices that will
evolve with this process. We look forward to hearing your ideas.
Please feel free to reach out to Aziz with any questions at
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. We're excited about this
incredible opportunity to showcase just how necessary community gardens
are to New York City!
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