1.   Community gardeners tend their patches on the west end, and the few nearby drug addicts are camouflaged by shrubs, easily overlooked.

2.   Community gardeners in Harlem and elsewhere in the city say they never had a chance to lobby for their gardens.

3.   The community gardeners have banded together to mount their own urban land reform effort.

4.   The community gardeners point to their history of coming into devastated slums and transforming them with sweat into urban oases.

5.   Two weekends ago, community gardeners planted more than a thousand bulbs at the end of Coffey Street.