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Young boys tending to garden plot on First Avenue. Chrysler Building can be seen in background.

This temporary restraining order, issued by Judge Richard Huttner, protected hundreds of gardens after the destruction by the city of Esperanza Community Garden. This court order was eventually folded into the Eliot Spitzer agreement in 2002.

Destruction of the Garden of Eden in the Lower East Side, 1985

Volunteers carry a Ceremonial Map that marks the location of each garden in a procession to acknowledge the presense of the gardens, not as vacant lots, but as living spaces cultimated by the community with active cultural programming.

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…

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

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…

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

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

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