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{{Short description|Nonprofit organization based in New York City}}
'''Brooklyn Queens Land Trust''' is non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and creation of [[Community gardens in New York City|community gardens]] in [[Brooklyn]] and [[Queens|Queens, New York]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Brooklyn Queens Land Trust - About Us |url=https://bqlt.org/about |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Brooklyn Queens Land Trust |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Organization history ==
In the winter of 1998, New York City mayor [[Rudy Giuliani]] announced that 114 community gardens would auctioned off in May 1999, claiming that the city would benefit from the land sale and the additional housing to be built on the real estate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Venugopal |first=Arun |last2= |date=2023-09-07 |title=NYC's community gardens overcame obstacles, including Rudy Giuliani |url=https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-community-gardens-overcame-obstacles-including-rudy-giuliani |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Gothamist |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Christopher M. |last2=Kurtz |first2=Hilda E. |date=2003 |title=Community Gardens and Politics of Scale in New York City |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30033906 |journal=Geographical Review |volume=93 |issue=2 |pages=193–212 |issn=0016-7428}}</ref> After months of public protests and a lawsuit headed by a group of gardeners and State Attorney General [[Eliot Spitzer]], the auction was stopped and a deal was negotiated for the [[Trust for Public Land]] (TPL) and the [[New York Restoration Project]] to purchase 112 of the gardens.
On March 21, 2004, the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust was chartered and incorporated as a [[501(c)(3) organization]] to manage 34 gardens, 29 in Brooklyn and 5 in Queens, with a plan to own those gardens.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Mooney |first=Jake |date=2004-03-21 |title=NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: NEW YORK GARDENS; For Those Patches of Green, Home Rule Draws Closer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/...-for-those-patches-green-home-rule-draws.html |access-date=2024-05-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The Manhattan Land Trust and the Bronx Land Trust were chartered at the same time.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-16 |title=The Brooklyn Queens Land Trust Identifies a Potential Pushback Against Development Proposals for Community Gardens |url=https://ediblebrooklyn.com/2015/bro...back-development-proposals-community-gardens/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Edible Brooklyn |language=en-US}}</ref> Demetrice Mills was the first president of the organization, and in 2012, the TPL signed over the deeds of 32 gardens to the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=PR Newswire |date=2012-01-04 |title=Thirty-Two Brooklyn and Queens Community Gardens Turned Over to Local Land Trust |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...urned-over-to-local-land-trust-136653398.html |journal=PR Newswire US |via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rich |first=Frederic C. |url=http://archive.org/details/gettingtogreensa0000rich_j4u6 |title=Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution |date= |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |others=Internet Archive |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-393-29247-3 |location=New York |pages=224-225}}</ref>
In 2016, the Trust collaborated with the [[Brooklyn Public Library]] on an oral history project featuring several garden founders.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chin |first=Heather |date=2016-03-30 |title=Listen To Neighborhood Stories And Tell Your Own With BPL's Oral History Project |url=https://bklyner.com/listen-neighborhood-stories-tell-bpls-oral-history-project-parkslopestoop/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Bklyner |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Organizational structure ==
The Trust comprises of a 15-member Board of Directors and has over 600 volunteer gardeners. They operate through a grassroots structure, with each Member Garden being operated by a group of gardeners, who elect one to two representatives who act on behalf of their garden, either by voting at meetings or serving on the Board of Directors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 4, 2015 |title=The Brooklyn Queens Land Trust Constitution |url=https://bqlt.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BQLT-Constitution_FINAL_040415.pdf |access-date=May 4, 2024 |website=Brooklyn Queens Land Trust}}</ref>
== Conservation work ==
The Brooklyn Queens Land Trust maintains its gardens in physical and legal ways, including providing liability insurance, managing property paperwork, connecting gardens to the [[New York City water supply system|city water system]], and making physical repairs to gardens.<ref name=":0" />
In 2016, the Trust received funding from the New York Community Trust to implement the Neighborhood Coalitions Project, which promoted sustainable growing practices and healthy eating through community development events.<ref name=":0" /> That same year, they also began the CIRCLE Initiative, with funding from the [[Land Trust Alliance]], which conducted tree inventories and soil testing and implemented composting, rain harvesting, and beekeeping projects.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://bqlt.org/ Official website]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bqlt/albums/72157679172658080/ Neighborhood Coalitions Project]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bqlt/albums/72157685613756125/ CIRCLE Initiative]
[[Category:2004 establishments in New York City]]
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{{Short description|Nonprofit organization based in New York City}}
'''Brooklyn Queens Land Trust''' is non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and creation of [[Community gardens in New York City|community gardens]] in [[Brooklyn]] and [[Queens|Queens, New York]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Brooklyn Queens Land Trust - About Us |url=https://bqlt.org/about |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Brooklyn Queens Land Trust |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Organization history ==
In the winter of 1998, New York City mayor [[Rudy Giuliani]] announced that 114 community gardens would auctioned off in May 1999, claiming that the city would benefit from the land sale and the additional housing to be built on the real estate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Venugopal |first=Arun |last2= |date=2023-09-07 |title=NYC's community gardens overcame obstacles, including Rudy Giuliani |url=https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-community-gardens-overcame-obstacles-including-rudy-giuliani |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Gothamist |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Christopher M. |last2=Kurtz |first2=Hilda E. |date=2003 |title=Community Gardens and Politics of Scale in New York City |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30033906 |journal=Geographical Review |volume=93 |issue=2 |pages=193–212 |issn=0016-7428}}</ref> After months of public protests and a lawsuit headed by a group of gardeners and State Attorney General [[Eliot Spitzer]], the auction was stopped and a deal was negotiated for the [[Trust for Public Land]] (TPL) and the [[New York Restoration Project]] to purchase 112 of the gardens.
On March 21, 2004, the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust was chartered and incorporated as a [[501(c)(3) organization]] to manage 34 gardens, 29 in Brooklyn and 5 in Queens, with a plan to own those gardens.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Mooney |first=Jake |date=2004-03-21 |title=NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: NEW YORK GARDENS; For Those Patches of Green, Home Rule Draws Closer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/...-for-those-patches-green-home-rule-draws.html |access-date=2024-05-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The Manhattan Land Trust and the Bronx Land Trust were chartered at the same time.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-16 |title=The Brooklyn Queens Land Trust Identifies a Potential Pushback Against Development Proposals for Community Gardens |url=https://ediblebrooklyn.com/2015/bro...back-development-proposals-community-gardens/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Edible Brooklyn |language=en-US}}</ref> Demetrice Mills was the first president of the organization, and in 2012, the TPL signed over the deeds of 32 gardens to the Brooklyn Queens Land Trust.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=PR Newswire |date=2012-01-04 |title=Thirty-Two Brooklyn and Queens Community Gardens Turned Over to Local Land Trust |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...urned-over-to-local-land-trust-136653398.html |journal=PR Newswire US |via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rich |first=Frederic C. |url=http://archive.org/details/gettingtogreensa0000rich_j4u6 |title=Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution |date= |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |others=Internet Archive |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-393-29247-3 |location=New York |pages=224-225}}</ref>
In 2016, the Trust collaborated with the [[Brooklyn Public Library]] on an oral history project featuring several garden founders.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chin |first=Heather |date=2016-03-30 |title=Listen To Neighborhood Stories And Tell Your Own With BPL's Oral History Project |url=https://bklyner.com/listen-neighborhood-stories-tell-bpls-oral-history-project-parkslopestoop/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Bklyner |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Organizational structure ==
The Trust comprises of a 15-member Board of Directors and has over 600 volunteer gardeners. They operate through a grassroots structure, with each Member Garden being operated by a group of gardeners, who elect one to two representatives who act on behalf of their garden, either by voting at meetings or serving on the Board of Directors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 4, 2015 |title=The Brooklyn Queens Land Trust Constitution |url=https://bqlt.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/BQLT-Constitution_FINAL_040415.pdf |access-date=May 4, 2024 |website=Brooklyn Queens Land Trust}}</ref>
== Conservation work ==
The Brooklyn Queens Land Trust maintains its gardens in physical and legal ways, including providing liability insurance, managing property paperwork, connecting gardens to the [[New York City water supply system|city water system]], and making physical repairs to gardens.<ref name=":0" />
In 2016, the Trust received funding from the New York Community Trust to implement the Neighborhood Coalitions Project, which promoted sustainable growing practices and healthy eating through community development events.<ref name=":0" /> That same year, they also began the CIRCLE Initiative, with funding from the [[Land Trust Alliance]], which conducted tree inventories and soil testing and implemented composting, rain harvesting, and beekeeping projects.
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://bqlt.org/ Official website]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bqlt/albums/72157679172658080/ Neighborhood Coalitions Project]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bqlt/albums/72157685613756125/ CIRCLE Initiative]
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