Reminder: Help Us Call the City About Garden Maintenance

March 17, 2020
by garden
1 min read

Dear all,

As discussed at the brunch, there are a few 311 calls you could all help us put in.  You can say you are calling about a Parks department maintenance problem and make the following three complaints.

  • 8 West 104th st, at the back of the garden lot (south side, western portion): there is no retaining wall. The area is unstable and unsafe and rats have burrowed there. We need a retaining wall.
  • 8 West 104th st, south side: the fence is falling down and needs to be replaced.
  • 8 West 104th st, along the western edge: the retaining wall is falling onto the neighboring lot and is making it difficult/impossible for the neighbor to maintain the strip. This area needs to be maintained to keep the rats out and we don’t have access to it. Our retaining wall needs to be fixed.

Thank you!
Your friends the garden worms

Easy Tasks – 311 Calls to Help the Garden

January 25, 2020
by garden
1 min read

Dear all,

Can you all help us with putting 311 requests in? The east garden needs lots of help and the DOB and Greenthumb people I’ve talked to say that putting in 311 requests could help a lot. Here is what we need: 

  • west side of east garden: the retaining wall is falling down (and rats hide in there)
  • south side (west) of east garden: we need a new retaining wall where the garden is flowing out under the fence (safety issue)
  • south side (east) of the east garden: we need the  holes in front of the retaining wall filled in with cement (rats hide in there)
  • south side of east garden: we need a new fence as our fence is falling down (safety issue)

Feel free to call 311 or put it in on the app.  Here is the address: 8 west 104. The more people who put in requests the better! 

Thank you!

Bethany