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Description: "Siempre Verde Garden celebrates the ethnic riches and intergenerational connections of our LES community by providing a place to be with nature. SVG improves quality of life, offers sustainable living—an educational resource for the neighborhood."
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Subject: Community gardens
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: Siempre Verde Garden (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) , New York (N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden was founded in 1976 by local residents and greening activists who took over what were then a series of vacant city lots piled high with rubble and trash. In an effort to improve the neighborhood during a downward trend of arson, drugs, and abandonment common in that era, members of the Latino group CHARAS cleared out truckloads of refuse...In 2003 La Plaza was renamed in memory of Armando Perez, a CHARAS founder and former District Leader of the Lower East Side who was killed in 1999."
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Subject: Community gardens , Neighborhood planning
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden (New York, N.Y.)
Coverage: Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Description: "Gardens Rising is a community-based environmental project to reduce stormwater flooding on the Lower East Side by building green infrastructure in our community gardens."
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Subject: Stormwater inflitration, Neighborhood planning, Community gardens
Group: Open and public spaces
Creator: New York City Community Garden Coalition
Coverage: New York (N.Y.), Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)
Borough: Manhattan
Status on live web: Unavailable
Collector: Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
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