Community gardens are an endangered species in NYC. Esperanza (Hope), a 23-year-old Lower East Side garden, was bulldozed by the Giuliani administration in January to make way for "affordable housing." Play for Keeps asks the question: "affordable to whom?" and exposes the city's attempts to gentrify New York's poorest neighborhoods and destroy thriving communities. Interviews with Loisaida's residents and gardeners, as well as More Gardens! activists, illustrate the need for direct action and civil disobedience to defend the last of this city's truly free green spaces. Made in 2000. 28 minutes.