Posters for our open spaces: http://time.com/4282408/national-parks-posters-wpa/

We made you some things to listen to and look at last year. They are still really good. Tune in here for voices behind ‪#‎NYC‬'s ‪#‎communityland‬: https://soundcloud.com/596-acres
Photos from Festival Of Ideas For The New City project with Deborah Berke & Partners Architects here:
https://www.facebook.com/596Acres/photos/…

"How do you turn each small victory into a movement? It’s a challenge for community activists everywhere, but such work is particularly critical in marginalized neighborhoods, places marked by decades of disillusionment and disconnect between residents and the people charged with representing, protecting and/or improving that place.

“Community activism is harder in marginalized neighborhoods because time, money and institutional memory are in short supply,” says Paula Segal, a lawyer and the director of 596 Acres, the Brooklyn-based community land access advocacy group behind those three victories.

Thanks, Oscar Perry Abello, for a great story!

Neighbors created 462 Halsey Community Garden on public land in 2011 in response to signs we posted on the fence. The thriving garden was included on a list of sites the city was willing to sell to private developers at the beginning of 2015. Gardeners and the community advocated for its preservation and succeeded: the site was permanently preserved as a community green space through a transfer to NYC Parks by the end of 2015. It continues to be a green oasis in Bedstuy, Brooklyn where neighbors compost organic waste, diverting tons of waste from landfills, and grow and distribute fresh produce (as seen here, in September 2013). Photo by Murray Cox. http://livinglotsnyc.org/lot/3016640040/

Hey hey - can you help us get the word out about this upcoming meeting to folks in the south Bronx: http://livinglotsnyc.org/lot/6000020001/

Join neighbors and the design team recruited by 596 Actes for a discussion of what you would like to see in the hillside space on 159th street between Eagle and St. Ann's on **Monday, April 25 at 5pm** at New Life School, 831 Eagle Ave, Bronx, NY 10456. Questions: organizers@596acres.org.