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Volunteers urge city to buy Bushwick City Farm to protect community garden and food-distribution site
Summary
Volunteers and neighbors told the Council the long-standing Bushwick City Farm and Club A Kitchen food-distribution site is at risk after a rezoning and tax-class change raised the owner's taxes; witnesses urged the city to purchase the lot and convert it to a permanent GreenThumb-managed space.
Multiple community members and volunteers urged the City Council to help preserve Bushwick City Farm, a community garden and food-distribution hub operating for about 15 years, after testimony said a reclassification following a rezoning changed the owner's tax status and jeopardized free community use of the lot.
Volunteers described longstanding community services run from the lot: weekly food distributions during the pandemic; translation and intake help for recently arrived…
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