"Douglas M. Hinds" wrote:
> Is Bette Midler a New Yorker? And more importantly: Will she run for Mayor
> next time around?
>
> DH
>
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> On 13/05/99 at 1:37 PM Erika Higgins wrote:
>
> >A Victory for all gardeners! Thank you divine Miss M!!!
> >
> >(from the New York Times - 5/13/99)
> >A day before the Giuliani administration was to auction off city-owned
> >lots that had been transformed into community gardens, the performer Bette
> >Midler had her private conservation organization agree to buy dozens of the
> >less desirable parcels, providing the final financing to preserve all 112
> >gardens that were set for sale.
> >
> >The 11th-hour announcement ended a long-running dispute between city
> >officials who said the parcels were ripe for sale and residents who viewed
> >themselves as gardeners tending to verdant oases in neighborhoods of
> >concrete and steel. But the fate of more than 600 other lots that were not
> >part of the auction remains unclear.
> >
> >Nevertheless, the $1.2 million purchase of 51 lots by the New York
> >Restoration Project -- arranged by a singer and actress better known for
> >her engaging flamboyance than for her diplomatic skills -- provided a vital
> >piece in the city's negotiations with environmental groups.
> >
> >The offer cleared the way for another conservation group, the Trust for
> >Public Land, to buy the rest of the 112 parcels for $3 million, a figure
> >that included an additional $1 million from Ms. Midler's organization.
>
> That makes her contribution the major one, then. 2.2 million vs 2 from the Trust.
>
> >According to the deal, the two organizations are to work out plans to turn
> >over the properties to the community groups that tend to the gardens. If
> >the properties are ever used for anything other than gardens, ownership
> >will revert to the city, said Deputy Mayor Randy Levine, who helped in the
> >negotiations.
>
> What a no good bastard. If the lots were paid for, who the hell are they to stick
> their noses into it (the gardens are fine, but why lock into just the current view of
> collective future needs)?
>
> >-------------------------------
> >Erika Higgins
> >ehiggins@oxy.edu
> >323-259-1426
> >Community Food Security Project
> >Occidental College
>
> Douglas M. Hinds
> Centro para el Desarrollo Comunitario y Rural, A.C. (CeDeCoR)
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> e-mail: dmhinds@acnet.net, cedecor@acnet.net, cedecor@ipnet.com.mx
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