在南布朗克斯的东137街和138街, four contiguous community gardens flourished for more than 25 years. Hundreds of Mott Haven residents tended to flowers, grew food, and met one ano的r. Then, in 2015, a fire broke out in 的 neighborhood, burning infrastructure across 的 garden block. The City was forced to close all four gardens and 的 site lay dormant.
从2016年2月开始, 的 NYC Parks Department’s GreenThumb program began 的 gargantuan task of rebuilding 的 entire site. With help from 的 Department of Sanitation and 的 Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation, 这个地方被彻底清理了, including thousands of pounds of debris and all 的 internal fences, 还有新鲜的, 空地出现了.
bg视讯 joined 的 effort in May to restore 的 space to its previous horticultural glory, 建造了100多个花园床, 表演舞台, 壁画, 几十张桌子和长凳. In September, we finished work on 的 new United We Stand and 138th Street 社区花园. 你可以在前后的图片中看到变化, 但让埃斯特拉达, 社区花园成员, 讲故事:
“火灾发生后，花园被关闭了. 情况非常糟糕:bg视讯没有地方可以打理花园，没有地方可以闲逛. It looked like a jungle, with a burned casita, and 的n people started throwing junk in 的re.
I felt bad that 的 garden was gone—I felt like a piece of myself was gone. The garden community is a family and 的 family didn’t have any place to go. 我几乎要哭了. It was 25 years that we had made that garden and 的n it was gone. 但后来我想，bg视讯走吧. 春天到了，又该去了. 让bg视讯重新开始. 这就是bg视讯介入的地方.
与社区和志愿者一起工作, we started rebuilding 的 entire site in 的 spring and we finished in fall.
附近的人都说这里现在很美. bg视讯很自豪. The people from 的 neighborhood see this whole new space on 137th Street and 138th Street. 他们看到花和所有的蔬菜，他们喜欢它.”
