From Sunnyside Post : Woodside could see two community gardens soon, as the city is preparing to license out small plots of land in the ar...

From the Queens Chronicle : A Queensboro Hill family is pushing to make an unused city-owned lot at the intersection of 136th Street and ...

Above: before photo from Queens Courier Below: current site The owner was in a hurry to kick the kids off the lot and put up a construc...

From Capital New York : The de Blasio administration is ending 2015 by addressing a long-standing controversy over the fate of 43 communit...

From DNA Info : A group of Ridgewood residents was so frustrated with a trash-strewn abandoned lot beneath the elevated M tracks that they...

From Brownstoner Queens : A group of Astoria residents are hoping to transform some unused land right next to the Elmjack Little League Fi...

From the Queens Tribune : Several years ago, a handful of Elmhurst neighbors and volunteers transformed a vacant lot into a community gard...

From DNA Info : At least 15 community gardens on city-owned property could be bulldozed to make way for new buildings under the de Blasio ...

From the NY Post : Herbs and vegetables grown in New York City community gardens are loaded with lead and other toxic metals, a startling ...

From A Walk in the Park : Under cover of darkness a beloved community garden in Coney Island was bulldozed beginning at 5am Saturday morni...

From the Queens Courier : Residents and volunteers are asking the city not to squash their community garden. Until last year, the vacant...

From New York World : An abandoned parking lot in Harlem and a former airport in Flushing may not appear to have much in common besides weed...

From Huffington Post : A remnant of the Great Recession is hiding behind a paint-splattered wall in Chinatown, in an empty lot where a build...

From the Gotham Gazette : While New York City adopts increasingly progressive measures to promote sustainability, at least one "green...

From GlobeSt.com : Just before the entrance of the Holland Tunnel, a half-acre site slated for construction on Canal Street between Sixth Av...

From the Times Ledger : Community Board 13 voted against an application to build a one-story commercial building in Cambria Heights during i...

From the Daily News : City officials eager to quash a green rebellion are planning to announce a compromise this week on the fate of communi...

From the Daily News : A DEVASTATING blackout that hit western Queens could be the spark to energize a green oasis under a proposal to build ...

From the Daily News : Gardeners are upset the proposed rules leave the door open for development of the plots. The rules were drafted to rep...

From the NY Times : New rules being drafted by the city may omit some protections and assurances accorded nearly a decade ago to hundreds of...