In this article, Joseph A. Fonti and Benjamin F. Burry discuss how a historic community garden in Manhattan won an injunction to stop a developer from destroying a mulberry tree on city-owned land.

The Children’s Magical Garden

The Children’s Magical Garden is a beloved community garden at the corner of Norfolk and Stanton in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. More than 40 years ago, the garden was founded by neighborhood residents who were unsettled by piles of garbage, used needles and discarded waste piled up on an abandoned corner lot across from an elementary school.

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