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Tag: 6th and B Garden

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

In the East Village, community gardens began growing when neighborhood activists threw “seed-bombs” into empty, trash-strewn lots. Tomorrow, GVSHP teams up with Green Guerillas – the organization that  arose from these first green activists – for a walking tour of the neighborhood’s community gardens. Since the tour is sold-out, we thought we’d provide a history […]

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6th and B Garden: 2012 Village Award Winner

The many community gardens of New York City were developed as the City tore down abandoned buildings in some of the worst neighborhoods and the community worked together to reclaim these blighted spaces. While the history of the 6th Street and Avenue B Garden closely follows this narrative, the current efforts of the garden to […]

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    A winding path in the 6th and B Garden.