The
Campus Road Community Garden at Brooklyn College will be uprooted this
winter to make room for a new parking lot, and Flatbush residents
aren't happy about it.

"The school already has a parking lot,"
said Toby Sanchez, 75, who helped found the vegetable and flower garden
in 1997. "We're upset. We're all really good friends and we have a good
time gardening. We've become one big family."

Brooklyn College
officials said the decision to bulldoze the garden was necessary in
order to expand their athletic track to meet NCAA regulations. The new
track will encroach on an old parking lot, so a new lot will be placed
directly where the garden sits now.