Our City, Our Gardens (1/2)

interview with Aresh Javadi of moregardens.org in New York City in May 2009

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2v36czr8lg

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82fafz1WI2g

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There are black and white photographs that I would highly recommend, where you stand on Avenue A, and you see to Avenue C, its just flat, a lot of people compare it to when Germany was bombed, or Europe had been bombed, you could see acres of land from one place straight to the other side, so its this flat, burned down land of buildings that had been knocked down or cleared, so theres a lot of vacant lots, when theres an issue of housing versus gardens, people have to realize that there was 40,000 vacant lots in New York City, 700, which is not even 1 per cent was community gardens — Its like a quarter of a per cent — was community gardens. And these were in the neighbourhoods, the Lower East Side being one of them, which had the most Puerto Rican, low-income, African American, and then thats when squatters also saw that vacant land and vacant buildings that were there, that they came in, too...

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