From the Times Ledger:Members of the United Talmudic Seminary at 74-10 88th St. joined with members of the Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, the Glendale Kiwanis and Community Board 5 to break ground on a new community garden in an unused corner of the Jewish school’s property.
“We want to be good neighbors,” Rabbi Berl Katz said of the agreement to let the groups use the land. “So far we don’t have any use for it. If the neighbors want to use it, why not?”
The 2,000-square-foot parcel of land where the garden will grow currently contains mounds of loose gravel, weeds and a sign belonging to the old Monarch Knitting Machinery Corp., which closed down before 2004, when the yeshiva took over the property.
The collaboration marked an improvement in relations between the yeshiva and civic groups in the neighborhood. In 2006, after a fight over whether the yeshiva could open a 100-room motel alongside the seminary, the city awarded a certificate of occupancy for just the school. In turn, the Glendale Civic Association filed a lawsuit against the city Department of Buildings alleging the agency was negligent in performing inspections and enforcing building code at the property.
6 comments:
Who's the well dressed young lady in the skirt ?
...Small photo but shes looks like good wool :)
Joe Addabbo is securing funding for property that that the Glendale Civic filed a lawsuit against? The lawsuit was filed because they are living there illegally. I'm confused.
Pay-offs! Make the lawsuit go away.
Whats with the fat guy in black?
Looks like the shovel is holding him up.
I bet that nobody has tested this soil. I'ts got to be contaminated. Atlas Shopping has do do an environmental cleanup to build stores and here we are going to let our kids dig in this dirt without testing it? No way would I let my kids help. Thanks Addabbo, Crowley and Tony Seminerio look alike Mike Miller. You guys are doing a great job. Anything for a photo op.
Hmmm...my mother-in-law loves to plant. Maybe I'll send her.
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