Planting Ground Cover in Pedestrian Refuge
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012
The Lower East Side Ecology Center and Transportation Alternatives plant ground cover on the pedestrian refuges on First Avenue.
Spring at the Earth School
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
The garden in front of the Earth School on Avenue B is starting to bloom.
Bike Garden
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Third avenue in the East Village. I walk past this spot all the time and this is the first I’ve noticed it. Both tires are flat, so maybe the bike is walked from location to location, spreading the word of “Beet the System”.
Eddie’s Big Wind
Monday, July 7th, 2008
I just finished part two of my Toy Tower Video – Eddie’s Big Wind.
A fierce wind and rain storm, Monday night after the memorial, leaves the tower dangerously leaning into the garden. This accelerates the Parks Department’s plans to tear it down. I again interview the gardeners : Joanee Freedom, Pat Russell, Graywolf and William Hohauser. And we hear from gardeners: Barbara (Improvisational poetry), Steve Jones Daughs (drums) and Tim Young (a sad witness to the final fall of the tower). Plus we hear from various neighbors who were unhappy to see it go, and John, the single angry, vocal protester on the morning of the take-down.
Graywolf tells a great story about how the tower almost came down in an ice storm in 1994, and how Eddie got his friends from Sophie’s bar to save it.
Joanee gives more garden history, and shares her theory about the storm being Eddie’s Wind.
William shares some insight into how Eddie expressed his spirituality.
And Barbara Monoian from the Musee de Monoian gallery says that Eddie was the neighborhood’s keeper of history.
A couple of neighbors expressed glee within earshot that the pile of junk was finally gone, but no one was willing to go on camera to say it.
