BRONX, NEW YORK
February 27, 2001
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The full City Council is meeting today to vote on several legislative matters, including an amendment to a city campaign finance law. What it will NOT be voting on is a proposal by the city to build affordable housing on nine community gardens in the South Bronx. Once again, that plan has been tabled, as city officials, garden advocates, and councilmembers try to figure out a compromise. Since 1999, when Mayor Giuliani threatened to auction off 112 community gardens, garden advocates have talked about their desire to have the city come up with a better way of evaluating city-owned garden lots before they were developed. WNYC's Amy Eddings reports that, in those two years, not much has changed.
