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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Urban gardener
Perhaps you've seen this man from the East Sixth Street overpass ... tending a plot of lettuce, herbs and other things alongside East River Park and the FDR...
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I wonder how healthy it is to have leafy greens breathing in all of that pollution?
Oh, so you can just plant a garden wherever you want now? Why does it seem like everyone around here gets away with everything, while I get away with nothing? I so much as let my dog off the leash for twenty seconds and BAM! $200 citation. Meanwhile people continue riding their bikes against traffic, on the sidewalks, people with their rooftop ragers, playing drums in the apartment, you name it. Total impunity. For everyone. Except me. Fuckall.
When I was a kid in the 1950s there was a man in the exact spot at the East River Park & 6 St who used to putter around in his 'garden'. Many Ukrainians gathered in the peaceful river park. By the 1960, drugs and crime took over the area, no one cared about gardening. It's amazing that it's coming back again.
He may actually be a gardener registered with NYCHA's Garden and Greening program - they provide support to residents who are interested in gardening around their developments (which, in this case, would be Wald Houses).
5 comments:
I wonder how healthy it is to have leafy greens breathing in all of that pollution?
Oh, so you can just plant a garden wherever you want now? Why does it seem like everyone around here gets away with everything, while I get away with nothing? I so much as let my dog off the leash for twenty seconds and BAM! $200 citation. Meanwhile people continue riding their bikes against traffic, on the sidewalks, people with their rooftop ragers, playing drums in the apartment, you name it. Total impunity. For everyone. Except me. Fuckall.
Are u sure it is not les green thunder stick
When I was a kid in the 1950s there was a man in the exact spot at the East River Park & 6 St who used to putter around in his 'garden'. Many Ukrainians gathered in the peaceful river park. By the 1960, drugs and crime took over the area, no one cared about gardening. It's amazing that it's coming back again.
He may actually be a gardener registered with NYCHA's Garden and Greening program - they provide support to residents who are interested in gardening around their developments (which, in this case, would be Wald Houses).
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