Title: Clinton Community Garden

URL: http://clintongarden.org/

Description: "Our garden is located at 434 West 48th Street in Manhattan between 9th and 10th avenues. The garden was created in 1978 by Hell's Kitchen residents who cleared out the rubble from a long-vacant lot and began planting it with flowers, herbs, fruits, and vegetables."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Neighborhood planning

Title: Elizabeth Street Garden

URL: http://elizabethstreetgarden.org/

Description: "Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden remains 100% committed to our mission to preserve Elizabeth Street Garden as a unique public green, open space and New York City Park."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Neighborhood planning,  Parks

Title: Gardens Rising

URL: http://gardensrising.org/

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

Title: La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden

URL: http://laplazacultural.com/

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

Title: Siempre Verde Garden – A LES NYC Community Garden

URL: http://svgarden.org/

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

Title: East New York Farms!

URL: http://ucceny.org/enyf/

Description: "The mission of the East New York Farms Project is to organize youth and adults to address food justice in our community by promoting local sustainable agriculture and community-led economic development. East New York Farms! is a project of the United Community Centers in partnership with local residents."

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning,  Community gardens

Title: New York City Garden Preservation Coalition

URL: http://www.earthcelebrations.com/gardens/gardens.html

Description: "The New York City Garden Preservation Coalition is a network of gardeners, community members, local schools, religious institutions, community centers and organizations working together to preserve the network of community gardens in New York City. The New York City Garden Preservation Coalition was founded in November 1994, to explore the possibility of forming a Land Trust and other preservation options, such as Permanent Site Status."

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning,  Community gardens

Title: Green Guerillas

URL: http://www.greenguerillas.org/

Description: "Green Guerillas uses a unique mix of education, organizing and advocacy to help people cultivate community gardens, sustain grassroots groups, grow food, engage youth, and address issues critical to the future of their gardens."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Urban agriculture,  Neighborhood planning

Title: Liz Christy Community Garden

URL: http://www.lizchristygarden.us/

Description: "This was the First Community Garden in New York City founded in 1973; it is located on the northeast corner of Bowery and Houston Streets in Manhattan."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Neighborhood planning

Title: Oasis Community Garden

URL: http://www.oasiscommunitygarden.com/

Description: "Located on West 52nd between 10th and 11th Avenues, Oasis Community Garden invites you to come in and smell the roses—and wander our pathways fashioned from the bricks of tenements that once stood on the lot—and daydream on our lawn until the fireflies come out—and admire the butterflies as they flit among our native perennials."

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Subject:   Community gardens

Title: West Side Community Garden

URL: http://www.westsidecommunitygarden.org/

Description: "The West Side Community Garden was founded in 1976 on a trash-strewn 89,000 square foot vacant lot on Columbus Avenue that had been slated for an urban renewal project. In 1982, the Community board, developers, and the New York City Planning Commission approved a permanent Garden plan, and a groundbreaking for the present Garden took place in October 1987. The property for the current Garden site was deeded to West Side Community Garden Inc. in November 1989."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Neighborhood planning

Title: Juan Alonso Community Garden

URL: https://alonsogarden.tumblr.com/

Description: "This beautiful green space [near 51st Street and 11th Avenue in Manhattan] is dedicated to the memory of Juan Alonso, a long time resident and devoted community gardener, who spent countless hours working in this garden. In 1993, a vacant lot full of debris was transformed into a community garden by the work of many volunteers from the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen community."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Open spaces

Title: Brooklyn Queens Land Trust

URL: https://bqlt.org/

Description: "BQLT gardens provide surrounding communities with vital access to open space. They are hubs for gardening, learning, arts, and culture. They bring together neighbors of all ages and backgrounds, strengthening the social fabric of our communities and making them healthier, safer, and more sustainable. Most BQLT gardens are used for urban agriculture, with a wide range of vegetables, fruits, and herbs grown for local consumption."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Open spaces

Title: New York City Community Garden Coalition

URL: https://nyccgc.org/

Description: "Founded in 1996, it is the mission of the New York City Community Garden Coalition to promote the preservation, creation, and empowerment of community gardens through education, advocacy, and grassroots organizing."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Neighborhood planning

Title: Lotus Garden

URL: https://thelotusgarden.org/

Description: "The Lotus Garden is a community garden-and a community of gardeners-on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, 20 feet above West 97th Street. Located on the roof of a parking garage, this beautiful, 7,000 sq ft urban oasis is maintained by 28 gardeners and other volunteers."

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Subject:   Lotus Garden (New York, N.Y.),  Community gardens ,  Open spaces

Title: 6/15 Green

URL: https://www.615green.org/

Description: "From five pioneering gardeners, the 6th Ave. & 15th Street Community Garden was created in 1994. Renamed 6/15 Green in 2001, the garden has grown to become an incorporated organization with over a hundred members, composters and supporters with programs that reflect the diversity of our members as well as the needs of the community. 6/15 Green helped to create the Brooklyn Alliance of Neighborhood Gardens (BANG) Land Trust which now holds the deed to this property and 4 other gardens in Brooklyn as a collective."

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Subject:   Community gardens

Title: East 43rd Street Community Garden

URL: https://www.e43scommunitygarden.org/

Description: "The East 43rd Street Community Garden Inc. is a 501 (c)3 non-profit charitable organization located at 1087 East 43rd Street between avenue I and J Brooklyn. It is 4,000 square feet and features a dozen raised beds, children section, picnic tables, and garden benches."

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Subject:   Community gardens ,  Open spaces

Title: GrowNYC

URL: https://www.grownyc.org/

Description: "Our mission is to improve New York City's quality of life through environmental programs that transform communities block by block and empower all New Yorkers to secure a clean and healthy environment for future generations."

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Subject:   Environmental education,  Farmers' markets,  Community gardens ,  Recycling centers

Title: More Gardens!

URL: https://www.moregardens.org/

Description: "We are a group of community people, community gardeners, and environmental and social justice activists who promote the development and preservation of community gardens as well as the cultivation of fallow land in NYC."

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Subject:   Neighborhood planning,  Community gardens

Title: New York Restoration Project

URL: https://www.nyrp.org/

Description: "With a special focus on communities of need, NYRP works in public parks, housing projects, vacant lots, schools, on sidewalks, the waterfront, and in our own community gardens. Our comprehensive approach to urban land management includes community engagement, capital construction, cultural programming, landscape maintenance, and environmental education."

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Subject:   Open spaces,  Parks,  Community gardens

Title: Pleasant Village Community Garden

URL: https://www.pleasantvillagecommunitygarden.com/

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Subject:   Community gardens

Title: Roosevelt Island Garden Community

URL: https://www.rigarden.org/

Description: "The Roosevelt Island Garden Club (RIGC) is a diverse community of gardening enthusiasts who work together to beautify our Roosevelt Island home, to increase gardening knowledge, and to impart an appreciation for nature, and environmental stewardship among our members and our neighbors."

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Subject:   Urban gardening,  Community gardens

Title: The Garden People

URL: https://www.thegardenpeople.org/

Description: We are community volunteers who have New York City Parks Department permission to plant and maintain a flower garden between 90th and 91st Streets, in the middle level of Riverside Park. Our garden began in 1977 under the auspices of the West 97-98 Streets Block Association. We first planted in a then-vacant lot at Broadway and 96th Street, where the Columbia Condominium now stands. When the bulldozers came in 1981, we sought and received NYC Parks Department permission to start a new garden in our current spot in Riverside Park."

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Subject:   Urban gardening,  Community gardens