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1 day ago'Gardening can help young people feel at peace'
A garden highlighting mental health pressures on young people will debut at the Chelsea Flower Show before becoming a community space in Newham.
J ulian Canadien, a Dene man from Kakisa, Northwest Territories, is swarmed by black flies while he pulls weeds from the soil beneath his feet. The bugs don't bother him much. He's the only paid employee at the community garden, where his job is to prune and clear the rows of vegetables, water the produce, and churn the compost. And he likes his job.
Cash said the new designs for the garden were unveiled at a Parks and Recreation Commission meeting in July 2024. After several meetings to receive community feedback, she added, the city had hoped to get the garden fully opened by March of this year but faced some delays. Public Works Director John Cherbone said that one reasons was that some of the furniture, like the greenhouse, took a few months to come in.
The prolific Cohn Brothers designed two brick buildings for developers the Clinton Construction Corp. The complex extends through the block to Vanderbilt Avenue with a shared courtyard in the center. The red brick buildings have some Colonial Revival details like arched windows with keystones, corner quoining, and the building entrance on Clinton Avenue sports pilasters and a canopy with dentil molding. Plans were filed in 1940 and construction wrapped in 1941.
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Randy Mastro, the newly appointed deputy mayor, has engaged in discussions suggesting a potential reevaluation of the city's decision to evict the popular garden for affordable housing.