>Shouldn't Guliani get any credit for compromising and agreeing to sell the gardens to Bette and TPL at a below-market price?
Maybe some (not a lot). I'd just like to see her run for mayor. She'd probably win and do a good job.
DH
>>From: Diane Cooner <amani@wclynx.com>
>>To: "Douglas M. Hinds" <dmhinds@acnet.net>
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>>Subject: Re: gardens in NYC
>>Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:43:59 -0700
>>
>>That's the best news I've had all year. Giuliani should still be taken to task for even
>>considering tearing the hearts out of these neighborhoods by clearing out their gardens.
>>diane
>>
>>"Douglas M. Hinds" wrote:
>>
>> > Is Bette Midler a New Yorker? And more importantly: Will she run for Mayor
>> > next time around?
>> >
>> > DH
>> >
>> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>> >
>> > 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)
>> > (Center for Community and Rural Development)
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