...and someone dunked their feet in purple paint and made footsteps that go between the two community gardens. (Adam Purple pretty much single-handedly created every garden in the Lower East Side by riding his bike up to the central park horse stables, collecting manure, and carting it back downtown to mix into the soil around all the empty lots where they'd torn buildings down. Over the years and through thousands of trips with manure, he turned all the empty lots into fertile topsoil where plants could grow!
My neighbors on 8th street are fighting about whether or not to allow the city to build a new senior center over a lot where there's a community garden. People who want the center are posting signs calling the garden a RAT FARM. haha. (It's not untrue).
