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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announce agreement to enable construction of affordable housing and preservation of GreenThumb Gardens. September 17, 2002

1918 Proclamation signed by John F. Hylan, the 96th Mayor of the City of the New York, declaring the punishment of any person caught destroying crops or entering gardens illegally with negative intentions.

Hand drawn poster from the National Child Welfare Association on 70 fifth Avenue in New York City depicting children tending to garden plots in front of a school building

Photos from fellow activist Donald Loggins show New York City's first community garden being planted in 1973, on the corner of Bowery and Houston

Advertisement listed in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Peter Henderson & Company, which was a New York City based seed distributer

Article from WNYC reporting on the agreement between Mayor Bloomberg and State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, protecting gardens from further private development.

Weekly Column by Mayor Giuliani in September 2001, arguing for the destruction of community gardens to make room for housing development projects.

Press Release from May 1999, announcing 114 Greenthumb Gardens would be sold to the Trust for Public Land and the New York Restoration Project for $4.2 million, both nonprofit groupsthat conserves land for people to ensure livable communities and a…

Poster for Reclaim the Street's Festival of Resistance, June 1999

Protestors gather in 1999 for a 24-hour encampment to protect it from demoliton. Protestors built barricades and campred out in the garden. They slept in the Coqui, a large, frog-shaped tree house and a symbol of Puerto Rico. The garden was…