Some Green Space Planned for Slope Lot This Spring

Last week we ran a post wondering whether the community garden that’s long been planned for the lot on Sackett Street and 4th Avenue is poised to become a reality soon, and Community Board 6’s Craig Hammerman has filled us in on the short- and long-term plans for the site. Hammerman says it will take around five more years for the Department of Environmental Protection to finish work on the site, which covers an underground water shaft tunnel. In the meantime, the lot will be split in half and used as an “interim” community garden. Green Space, the organization pushing for a garden for years, should be able to plant on half the site by this spring. The idea is to expand the garden once the DEP is out of the picture. Because of the nature of the underground construction, the land will never be able to sustain a building.
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