November 3rd, 2008
50 Cent And Miss M Beautify The Neighbourhood
New York City got a lovely touch of green today, thanks to Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project and 50 Cent’s G Unity Foundation working together. The celeb duo worked their collective butts off to restore a community garden in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York. The newly crowned Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Community Garden’s restoration is the vision of famous landscape architect and designer Walter Hood. 50 Cent was very generous with his donations.
Bette Midler sung his praises:
“He stepped up to the plate to fund this project,” she went on to add, “And when it ended up costing $100,00 more than we anticipated, he didn’t bat an eyelid. He wrote the check!”
50 Cent who grew up in the neighbourhood wanted to help restore the garden as part of his ongoing efforts to give back to the neighborhood where he grew up. To celebrate the opening of the garden children from Myrtle P Jarmon Day Care Center who use it as a part of their programe were featured. Council members, teachers and members of the community put in appearances to mark the occasion with a Halloween themed party.
50 Cent said:
“It’s nice to be able to give back to this next generation of kids,” he went on to say, “This is the first of many projects I’m going to do in this community.”
That’s so nice of him!
