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Marga Snyder of the community garden La Plaza Cultural gives the history of the garden from way back when it was a stream-crossed salt-marsh. It’s a large community garden in the East Village of New York City. It remains an open space today because the streams running beneath the landfill, make for poor building foundations.
On Grand Street, Lower East Side.
Ben Shepard, biking advocate from Times-Up talks about his experiences in the Occupy movement over the past few months, at Occupy Town Square in Tompkins Square Park this past Sunday.
Occupy Wall Street and its energy comes back to Tompkins Square Park in the East Village, the site last August of the early General Assemblies, before the Zuccotti Park/Liberty Square camp-out.
Elm tree just to the east of the Avenue A playground in Tompkins Square Park.
In 2006
All these photos are from last Sunday, Feb 19. While sections of the west have received major snow storms, New York City has not had more than a couple of inches of snow and has had largely Spring-like weather most of this winter. This seems at least a month earlier than they usually or at least used to bloom
Snowfall January 2012
Tralamander: Possibly Cornus mas (more likely) or Cornus officinalis buds. 
Tralamander: Helleborus sp.
Commonly known as “Hellebore”
Probably Helleborus x hybridus, as all species interbreed so readily, new “cultivars” are created all the time, so most are technically “Helleborus x hybridus”.
Acorn production in oaks goes in cycles. This year the trees produced few acorns. On good years the squirrels will stockpile enough to help get them through the winter. I’m sure the Tompkins squirrels have been well fed by people.
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