Community Garden Bulldozed.On February 15, thirty-one people were arrested as they tried to defend a community garden on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For twenty-two years, residents have used El Jardin El Jardin is a house located at 3747 Main Highway in Miami, Florida. It is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1918 along a ridge of oolitic limestone, El Jardin expresses the broad training of its architect, Richard Kiehnel, and the experience de Esperanza, or Garden of Hope. But a developer wants to turn the garden lot into an apartment building, and the city leveled the garden with a bulldozer. Neighbors, along with the MORE! gardens coalition, which advocates a long-term strategy of turning community gardens into permanent public park lands, had erected a ten-foot heated sculpture in the shape of a coqui, a cultural symbol of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. . The protesters used the frog frog, common name for an amphibian of the order Anura. Frogs are found all over the world, except in Antarctica. They require moisture and usually live in quiet freshwater or in the woods. as an office and sleeping room. From the frog's eyes, the activists kept watch over the garden. For more information, contact the MORE! gardens coalition, 79 Clinton St. #17, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10002, or call (212) 330-6851, or e-mail aj9@is3.nyu.edu. |
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