I. Green Thumb Rules 2010 and Rules 2019. & Executive Order 43, 2024

More Gardens’ assessment for the illegal and unjust License Agreement, Parks Rules, and now Ececutive Order 43 to review all available land for housing (Parks included) and beyond: is for community gardeners to join forces, rally representatives, go to the State Attorney General, and jointly sue to bring back NYC administrators to the table and re-enforce the Garden Agreement made in 2002, correcting the illegal and unjust “Parks Rules.”

Here is the Link to the GreenThumb Community Garden License 2019, which GreenThumb/Parks mailed to community gardens' contact persons the week of April 15, 2019. The highlighted changes from the previous agreement, dated 2014, are in bold. As co-director of the Legislative Committee, I oversaw the writing of the following letters with our lawyers and the board.

Aresh Javadi

Here are:

1-Link “NYCCGC’s letter in 2010 asking State Attorney General Cuomo to back our position with the draconian new rules (they did back off a critical sentence regarding keeping community gardens in Parks). The State Attorney General’s (Spitzer) Agreement is included in the letter,

2- Link “NYCCGC’s opposition and recommendation to the Rules, Position.” 2010

3- Link NYC COMMUNITY GARDEN MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT 2002

ii. NYC Community Garden Permanency vision

Designating community gardens as mapped parks is a start.

A coalition of community gardeners NYCCGC, More Garden, Lungs, and individuals with State administrators and NYC council speakers almost created a partnership/conservancy with at least a 99-plus-year agreement and three-quarters voting power by community gardeners! LINK

Creating a Partnership where the community gardeners are in a super majority representative partnership with NYC Parks and the community gardens are listed by city administrators as what they truly are: “Preserved Parkland”!

III. Creating more gardens!

Bringing about an NYC-mandated policy of one or more new community gardens as a part of each of the 99 new housing units in NYC!