Posts by Karen Alessi

WNYC, October 2012 Dora Hinds grew up as a city girl in her native Guyana, but that didn’t stop her from creating her own agricultural oasis when she moved to the Nehemiah houses in East New York, Brooklyn, several years ago.

East New York’s Flourishing Caribbean Gardens New York Times, October 2012 Today, the place to unearth dasheen, and dozens of other Caribbean mainstays, is East New York and the neighborhood’s 60 community gardens.

America’s Heartland, Episode 418, Urban Agriculture “Urban” agriculture is alive and well in the heart of “The Big Apple.”

CUNY Interactive Journalism, December 2009 But with only a handful of full-service grocery stores in East New York, no major progress is yet visible. Indeed the East New York Food Coop, at 419 New Lots Ave. just closed down. East New York Farmers Market is one way the community is addressing the problem.