Tag Archives: Brook Park
Advocates say: Put the brook back in Brook Park
Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 by Cheryl Chan.
Restoring a stream would bring environmental benefits Brook Park takes its name from Mill Brook, whose waters once burbled through today’s Webster and Brook Avenues. Now the environmental organization that helps oversee the park wants to bring the brook back. “What we are trying to do here is make a green park, and a blue [...]
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As pact with city expires, gardeners worry
Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by Joe Hirsch.
City officials insist community gardens have nothing to fear Eight years ago, the city, the state and the creators of 500 community gardens on city-owned land reached an agreement that ended a long battle that began when the Giuliani administration sought to auction the garden lots to developers. Now, that agreement is set to expire, [...]
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Mott Haven gardens reap a bountiful harvest
Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by Stephanie Rabins.
Urban farmers won’t rest when the last crop is picked On a warm weekday morning in September, Valeria Cantero arrives at Brook Park, on Brook Avenue between 140th and 141st streets. She opens the gate with a key and locks up behind herself. After leaving her things in the center of the garden, Cantero ducks [...]
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Anarchists redefine free market
Posted on 12. Apr, 2009 by Sarah Trefethen.
Anti-authoritarian radicals occupied Brook Park for the first-ever Bronx Anarchist Fair on April 4. The park’s regulars didn’t seem to mind.
The fair featured workshops, bookstalls, movie screenings, food vendors and something called a “really, really free market,” all focused on the theme of far-left-wing politics.
