WSJ article about Miss Maggie receiving the Presidential Volunteer Service Award

Miss Maggie's receives the Presidential Volunteer Service Award!

In a cab at around Broadway and 130th Street, a neighborhood I'm not that familiar with, I glanced up from my BlackBerry and told myself, "You ought to look around." Harlem used to be terra incognita to many New Yorkers, no less frightening, with its crime and drugs, than the edge of the world was to ancient mariners.

Fortunately, much of that has changed in recent years with better policing and the waning of the crack epidemic. But just as important in Harlem's recovery has been the role of its citizens, such as Maggie Burnett, who last week received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for the thousands of hours she's spent over several decades transforming a vacant lot on 149th Street into a jewel-like community garden. Since the late '90s her efforts have been aided by the New York Restoration Project, Bette Midler's nonprofit dedicated to the city's open spaces.  Go to full article.