These signs recently arrived on the fence of the empty lot on East Third Street just east of Avenue C... providing information on how you can use this space... Members of 596 Acres recently posted these ... (the Brooklyn-based group of gardeners have identified vacant lots throughout NYC ... they want to help empower local residents to take them over and make the land something useful and green ...)
The city owns this property... according to DOB records, the city approved plans here in 2008 for a four-floor residence. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development is listed as the owner. No word on the status of those now five-year-old plans.
Meanwhile, someone made it easy to access the lot...
Read more about 596 Acres in this Times feature from April 2012.
Previously on EV Grieve:
A look at the dwindling number of East Village lots
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