They’re Paving A Garden To Put Up A Condo in New York
In the early 1980s, the garden had attracted the attention of the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen, who wrote of the garden: “The lot that is now the garden was full of old bathtubs, refrigerators, stoves and rats before it was cleared.
By Andrew Karpan
Bushwick Daily
Jan 22, 2021
Excerpt:
Less than a decade ago, the community garden had been renamed in honor of its founder, a neighborhood urban farming enthusiast. Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez spoke at the garden, as had Assemblywoman Annette Robinson. But the lasting legacy of the since-shuttered Avellar G. Hansley Secret Garden has emerged: a new 20-story mixed-use condominium will take the garden’s place on 1333 Broadway.
The details come from paperwork that real estate developer Erik Ekstein filed with the New York Department of Buildings last month. According to reporting from the Brooklyn Paper, Ekstein bought the property with the garden on it for $16.7 million from another property developer that had bought the space in 2018 for $8.75 million.
