New York Post – by Priscilla DeGregory
There’s a secret garden growing in the most unlikely of places — along the FDR Drive in the East Village.
An unidentified horticulturalist has maintained the lush urban garden for two years, growing vegetables and herbs adjacent to the East Sixth Street footbridge, city parks employees say.
The 30-by-9-foot strip of land, which runs along the southbound lanes of the FDR, was previously filled with day lilies but now boasts rows of fresh veggies.
The little patch is cordoned off with a discarded orange “left lanes closed” roadwork sign, cinder blocks and wire fencing.
But as lovely as the little green space may be, it’s not there legally.
“The garden is not authorized,” said Phil Abramson, a Parks Department spokesman.
Parks employees have tried to tell the elusive gardener, believed to be an Asian man, he’s not allowed to plant there.
“It’s hard to communicate because we don’t speak whatever language he speaks,” said one Parks worker, who did not want to be identified.
The mystery gardener could not be reached.
http://nypost.com/2014/07/04/secret-vegetable-garden-grows-along-the-fdr-drive/
“But as lovely as the little green space may be, it’s not there legally.
“The garden is not authorized,” said Phil Abramson, a Parks Department spokesman.”
By WHOSE authority, @sshole???
Abramson…
ANOTHER POS STINKING JEW!
““The garden is not authorized,” said Phil Abramson, a Parks Department spokesman.”
Hey Phil, YOU’RE not authorized to be on this planet, you Communist control freak! Someone please hang this bastard.
I got bad news for the gardener — that thing will probably be trampled during tonight’s fireworks show.
One man’s flower bed is another drunk’s sleeping bed.
“but now boasts rows of fresh veggies.”
NO! not fresh
full of benzine.
dumbasses.
dont plant food next to roads unless you have no intent on eating them.
Exactly. I like the idea of using unused space for gardening, but next to a dirty, chemical-ridden freeway? Ewwwww!
Same with people who like to jog along roads. 😯 What they are breathing into their lungs cannot be healthy.
. . .
I read a study once that showed people who run on busy streets are more likely to be a narcissist. They run so everyone else will admire how good at running and physically fit they are. Of course most of us just try to not hit them with our cars.
Occasionally someone gets lucky.