Show New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) that our local community favors saving Elizabeth Street Garden and opposes any development plans!
Let’s make our voices heard:
1. Attend Community Board 2′s Working Group on Affordable Housing Development Meeting — Wednesday, Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m.
Location: Scholastic Auditorium
557 Broadway (between Prince and Spring streets)
Arrive before 6:30 p.m. and WEAR GREEN. Download and print a Save Our Garden sign or, better yet, make one of your own. Garden volunteers will distribute Save Our Garden stickers.
2. Let us know if you plan to attend the hearing. RSVP here.
3. Share this message with your neighbors and friends, especially those who live in the neighborhood, via email or social media.
Meeting Details
New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) will present an “intended process and timeline for a Request for Proposals (RFP) for an affordable housing development at Elizabeth Street Garden.” This RFP process would invite developers to submit proposals for a construction project that would destroy the Garden.
Q&A will immediately follow, first by Community Board 2 (CB 2) members and then by the public. During Q&A, Garden supporters may ask how HPD’s plan to develop the Garden takes into account the:
- Lack of green park space in CB 2;
- Heavy use of the Garden by local residents including neighborhood seniors and children;
- Needs of the hundreds of residents at 21 Spring St.;
- Strong support from the local community for preserving the Garden as a park;
- An alternative to build affordable housing at Hudson and Clarkson streets;
- How development that includes ground-floor retail will impact local small businesses; and
- Additional questions raised by HPD’s presentation.
Following Q&A, public comments will be welcome.
The Scholastic auditorium seats 271, so there will be plenty of room for Garden supporters! RSVP here.
Why YOUR Attendance Makes a Difference
By attending the Jan. 20 meeting, you have the opportunity to show HPD, our elected officials and community leaders that our local neighborhood and business community are committed to saving Elizabeth Street Garden. RSVP here.
In September, Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden supporters wrote more than 1,500 letters in favor of saving the Garden and in opposition to a Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) grant to HPD for an affordable housing project that would destroy the Garden.
Additionally, more than 250 supporters attended (or tried to attend) the LMDC hearing. Supporters filled the main hearing room, two overflow rooms and an outside terrace. Some were never even able to enter the building due to overwhelming attendance, but each and every one of us was counted!
To date, LMDC has not yet made a decision on grant recipients, but our overwhelming support showed that building on Elizabeth Street Garden does not demonstrate “a high level of community interest and support,” a primary criterion for the grant.
As the working group will meet in executive session, the public will have the opportunity to attend and listen.
Open to the public and FREE.
Open to the public and FREE!
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Join over a thousand community gardeners and greening professionals from all over New York City for a day of learning, sharing, networking, and greening inspiration at the 32nd Annual GreenThumb GrowTogether!
This year’s conference features exciting new workshops and returning favorites, including many hands-on and youth-focused workshops, for gardeners of all ages.
It feels like spring. Come outside and play in the dirt. Join Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden for bagels & spreads and coffee and help get the Garden ready for the season. We’ll clean, cut back, dig and divide. BYOPruners, if you have them.
No gardening experience required, just come ready to help. Everyone is welcome.
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Join Us As Volunteers Plan 2016 Programming & Social Events
We will focus this month on 2016 programming. If you or your local community organization are interested in providing free, public programming or hosting a special event or performance in the Garden, please complete this event form by March 22.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
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Join 596 Acres and Public Space Party for a bike ride to visit gardens in danger of disappearing. Meet at Elizabeth Street Garden and ride through the Lower East Side into Brooklyn. Find route details and gardens visited here.
Open to the public and FREE.
Learn how to start a variety of herb and vegetable seeds in cold frames to plant out later in spring and add to our special Chinese-Italian kitchen garden that celebrates the diverse culinary heritage of our neighborhood. Adults and kids are welcome.
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
You can grow rice in NYC!
Join Grow to Learn and Nick Storrs from Randall’s Island Urban Farm to learn about planting and growing the world’s most widely consumed crop.
Learn how to make urban rice paddies and aqua-ecosystems with your students and how to grow rice from seed to harvest.
Register here. Open to the public and FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat, if you have one.
Children’s Storytime, weekly
Garden volunteer Alan Young and his 3-year-old son Callum entertain kids with their favorite stories.
Open to all children under age 5. FREE.