Community Garden Bulldozed.

• Position: In Manhattan, New York, New York to make way for a building - Brief Article

On February 15, thirty-one people were arrested as they tried to defend a community garden on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For twenty-two years, residents have used El Jardin de Esperanza, or Garden of Hope. But a developer wants to turn the garden lot into an apartment building, and the city leveled the garden with a bulldozer. Neighbors, along with the MORE! gardens coalition, which advocates a long-term strategy of turning community gardens into permanent public park lands, had erected a ten-foot heated sculpture in...