Elizabeth Street Garden won its fight. What does that mean for housing development in NYC?

… down from a decadelong fight to build affordable senior housing on the cityowned lot Instead city officials said on … Elizabeth Street Garden as affordable housing which it had leased to gallerist Allan Reiver since the 1990s for $4000 a … the development in court and opened the garden to the public in 2013 hoping to win the publics sympathy Before …

By Celia Young |June 24, 2025 - 4:30PM
All the dirt on NYC's compost collection program

… guilty about throwing your food scraps in the regular trash theres good news Not only has New York Citys curbside … easiest says Belinda Mager director of communications at NYCs Department of Sanitation Just put anything from your … of Sanitation to establish a smallscale organic waste collection pilot program in neighborhoods and public schools …

By Jennifer White Karp |October 4, 2024 - 10:15AM
Secret gardens: The plants and insects that inhabit NYC's green roofs

… … Dursts 35story West 57th Street building hosts ferns oak leaf hydrangeas river birch trees and mayapples Sliwa says … and biodiversity You might be able to spot the little blue stem a type of north american prairie grass atop the …

By Celia Young |August 21, 2023 - 3:52PM