Le Petit Versailles is a community garden in New York City that focuses on art and music events. It has been successful in enhancing the neighborhood, facilitating communication between community members, and collaborating with organizations like NYU and Allied Productions. However, it faces risks such as issues with its location and funding, potential changes to legislation, and lack of management structure and technology resources. To address these challenges, suggestions are made to hold more events, create permanent art collections, restructure management, extend hours, and reformat the garden space.

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Le Petit Versailles
Eisha Abdel-Ghany
Kelsey Conophy
Ruimou Chen
Kimbra Lo

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What is Le
Petit Versailles?
•Community garden with a focus of art and
music events
• Neighborhood rehabilitation
• Community bonding
• Influence on Community Garden laws

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Who is Le Petit
Versailles?
• Owners: Jack & Peter
• 10 main users, 2 main gardeners
• Allied Productions & other organizations

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Successes of
LPV
• Community enhancement
• Communication & marketing
• Collaboration (NYU, Allied Productions, etc)
•Acceptance
• Events

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Risks to LPV
• Location and foundation
• Capital/funding
• Change in legislation
• Over-crowding/size/accessibility
• Management structure
• Lack of technological resources

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What to do
about it.
• Throw more events
•Permanent collections
•More structured management
•Extend hours with users present
•Reformat garden space to make more
inviting

7. +What can you suggest
for Le Petit Versailles?
•How can LPV get the surrounding
community to become more
involved?