{"id":415353,"date":"2017-10-25T16:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=415353"},"modified":"2017-10-25T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T20:44:55","slug":"absentee-landlord-threatens-to-fence-off-harlem-community-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=415353","title":{"rendered":"Absentee Landlord Threatens to Fence Off Harlem Community Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171025\/central-harlem\/garden-owner-threatens-takeover-shut-down-harlem-garden\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171025\/central-harlem\/garden-owner-threatens-takeover-shut-down-harlem-garden\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171025\/central-harlem\/garden-owner-threatens-takeover-shut-down-harlem-garden\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171025\/central-harlem\/garden-owner-threatens-takeover-shut-down-harlem-garden#slideshow\" class=\"js-slideshow\" title=\"The Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden\"><\/a> <img class=\"vital\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/extralarge-5.jpg\" alt=\" The community garden on West 122nd Street, between Seventh and Eight avenues, has been on the block since 1985. Now the owner of half of the garden, is threatening to fence off his property. \" \/> The Joseph Daniel Wilson Memorial Garden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171025\/central-harlem\/garden-owner-threatens-takeover-shut-down-harlem-garden#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" The community garden on West 122nd Street, between Seventh and Eight avenues, has been on the block since 1985. Now the owner of half of the garden, is threatening to fence off his property. \">View Full Caption<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>HARLEM &mdash; The absentee landlord of two vacant lots on West 122nd&nbsp;Street wants to boot a 30-year-old community garden to&nbsp;cash in on the neighborhood&#8217;s booming&nbsp;real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, gardeners&nbsp;who spent years turning&nbsp;the abandoned, rat-infested lots into a bustling community garden&nbsp;were abruptly told to clear out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plans are being made to enclose our client&#8217;s properties with a ten-foot fence around each lot,&#8221; read&nbsp;a letter signed by the owner&#8217;s lawyer, Kerry John Katsorhis, to the gardeners.&nbsp;&#8220;Demand is herein made for you to vacate both lots immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projectharmonynyc.org\/\">The Joseph<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415354,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415353"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415357,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415353\/revisions\/415357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/415354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}