Community Gardens

	1100 BLOCK BERGEN ASSOCIATION 1101 & 1105 Bergen Street The garden provides a warm and peaceful environment for young and old. An oasis in the community, it adds beauty to the surroundings. Mature shade trees and planting beds create an aesthetic feast for the eyes. Vegetable beds in the rear of the garden provide sustenance for the soul. Activities include an autumn back-to-school party, children's workshops and holiday decorations.
	ADDED VALUE & HERBAN SOLUTIONS 370 Van Brunt Street Added Value is a non-profit organization promoting the sustainable development of Red Hook by nurturing a new generation of young leaders. We work towards this goal by creating opportunities for the youth of South Brooklyn to expand their knowledge base, develop new skills and positively engage with their community through the operation of a socially responsible urban farming enterprise. Together we have helped revitalize local parks, transformed vacant lands into vibrant Urban Farms, improved our access to healthy, safe and affordable food, and begun to grow an economy that supports the needs of our community. Currently, Added Value has three main initiatives: Growing a Just Food System, Youth Empowerment, and Farm-Based Learning.
	AMBOY NEIGHBORHOOD GARDEN 199 Amboy Street Ornamental trees and shrubs, lawn, vegetable and flowerbeds. Benches, picnic tables, BBQ area with wrought iron fencing & play space for children. Dedicated by Mayor Ed Koch in 1984, this PLANT A LOT sponsored community garden and playground has been providing recreational play space for the Amboy Day Care Center children for early 20 years.
	ANGEL'S GARDEN 978 Greene Ave. Greene Block Association is a small (25x100) mixed vegetable and flower garden started in 1980 by the Greene Avenue Block Association. The garden is used to produce food, which is shared with local senior citizens and the homeless. This garden and another community garden on the block (Greene Avenue Cedar Tree) provide important recreational activities and meeting and greeting spaces for area senior citizens and help keep this immaculate brownstone block looking good. This is probably the oldest consistently active community garden in Bedford Stuyvesant.
	BEDFORD AVENUE BLOCK ASSOCIATION GARDEN 931 Bedford Ave. For 11 years this garden has helped improve safety and quality of life in this Brooklyn neighborhood. The garden is primarily used to grow vegetables. Most of the harvests are used by the gardeners themselves, while some is shared with the needy. NYRP is currently redesigning this garden with the gardeners.
	BED-STUY FARM 255 Bainbridge Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233 In 2005, BRM created partnerships with the New York City environmental and food justice organizations to break ground on an abandoned lot behind the Mission in order to grow fruits and vegetables for pantry recipients. The site, once a neighborhood garbage dump, was transformed into an urban oasis that has served several hundred people since its creation. The farm has become a community gathering space and a classroom to teach neighborhood youth about food growing and community service.
	BERRY STREET GARDEN 301-303 Berry Street This garden, run by the Berry Wythe South Second Street Block Association, has been around for two decades. It has vegetable and flower gardens and a giant walnut tree, which may be in jeopardy because of adjacent construction. The group holds barbeques in the summertime and a very successful tomato tasting event, complete with wine & cheese.
	BRIDGE PLAZA COMMUNITY GARDEN 201-203 Bridge Street P.S. 141K Miracle Garden is a small corner lot directly adjacent to the Manhattan Bridge entrance ramp. The garden was founded in 1995 as a part of the curriculum of P.S. 141K, an elementary school across the street. The garden contains vegetable beds, which are assigned to various classrooms of the school and mature trees, simulated wet lands, brick paths lined by ornamental and herb gardens. It is used every year to teach science. The garden provides an important respite from the noise and fumes generated by the heavy traffic on the Manhattan Bridge. This property is restricted by zoning to open space use only. Community board two supports the permanent preservation of this site as a garden.
	BROOKLYN BEARS CARLTON AVE 397-401 Carlton Avenue Part of this garden is a productive farm, with giant boxes divided for multiple members and a huge planting oval for community vegetables. There's also beautifully landscaped flower beds all watched over by a colorful mural featuring a winged mantis.
	BROOKLYN BEARS ROCKWELL PL GARDEN Flatbush Ave, Lafayette Ave, (Rockwell Pl)
	BROOKLYN COLLEGE GARDEN Campus Road and E 21st St Brooklyn, NY 11230
	BROOKLYN GRANGE 261 Moore St. A Commercially-Viable Roof Farm in Brooklyn Urban farming has been widely practiced nationwide and internationally as a tool for greening neighborhoods and educating populations about food and health, but the creation of a commercially-viable rooftop farm has yet to be realized. Brooklyn Grange aims to build on decades of rooftop farming best practices and establish a one-acre farm that operates as a sustainable small business. The farm will sell fresh, organic and affordable food to the local community, contributing to the health and economic development of the neighborhood.
	CEDAR TREE GARDEN 305 Greene Ave This vegetable garden sponsored by the block Association received material and technical assistance from TPL and CENYC. A large pavilion and tool shed occupy the rear of the garden. Bluestone pathways with some old sidewalk slabs were added. The garden also features a master compost station with a scale to record contributions. The Green Guerillas helped the gardeners create a mosaic mural. A rainwater harvesting system catches water from an adjacent building. A special feature is a memorial dedicated to fallen black firefighters.
	CENTRAL BAINBRIDGE BLOCK ASSOCIATION INC. 277-279 Bainbridge Street This garden, started in 1982, provides the community with a variety of fresh vegetables, including sweet potatoes, lima beans, sweet peas, and collards. 12 volunteers from the neighborhood block association manage the garden activities and host regular visits for students from P.S. 40 to teach them how to grow vegetables.
	CLASSON/FULGATE BLOCK ASSOCIATIONe 474 Classon Avenue Brick walkways divides garden into 2 parcels that yield numerous vegetation. Large wall mural across back wall depicts block resident history. Recreation area through archway with tables, benches, BBQ pit, tool shed and shelter.
	CLIFTON PLACE GARDEN http://cliftongarden.blogspot.com/
	DECATUR AND BUSHWICK ASSOCIATION 1052 Decatur Street For 12 years this garden has served neighborhood children and parents and provided the needy with vegetables and grapes. Many area residents take advantage of the space for annual garage sales and block parties. The garden volunteers help senior citizens maintain their homes by assisting them with difficult garden chores. Currently the garden in a state of disrepair, thought students from P.S. 45 use this site.
	EAGLE STREET ROOFTOP FARM West End and Eagle Street On the shoreline of the East River and with a sweeping view of the Manhattan skyline, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm is a 6,000 square foot green roof organic vegetable farm located atop a warehouse rooftop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
	EAST 4TH STREET GARDEN East 4th St, Caton Ave, Fort Hamilton Pkwy Brooklyn, NY 11218
	EAST END COMMUNITY GARDEN This garden is mostly senior citizens. We organize and grow vegetables that are so important to our healthy diets. Our garden is clean and well kept. We have no sidewalk on the outside of the garden.
	EAST NEW YORK URBAN YOUTH This sunny garden corner lot has a well designed hard-scape with ample room for growing vegetables.
	EASTERN PARKWAY GARDEN Union Street Btwn Franklin & Classon Situated on top of the Eastern Parkway Shuttle Station this huge community garden raises a substantial amount of produce for the community. Community gardeners suffered injustice when Transit Police took the garden for a parking lot and cut down several trees. Gardeners fought to get their garden back. Later in the ‘90s the MTA closed the garden to renovate the station. With the help of GreenThumb a settlement fund was created. GrowNYC helped the gardeners rebuild an extensive array of raised beds, new wood fencing, pathways and plantings, a tool shed, brightly colored tables and benches and a shade tent. DEP architects designed a shade structure and plantings to hide the concrete roof of the station, and a permanent water system. This second phase of development awaits funding.
	EL PUENTE ESPIRITO TIERRA 203-207 South 2nd Street This medicinal herb garden brings together elders with young people. The design of the garden was made by young people, and includes a mural, a stage for events, a reading area, and a native woodland. The garden participates in a market/cultural festival every Saturday from 12-6 in July and August at Continental Army Plaza where they sell vegetables grown in the garden and demonstrate how to use the medicinal herbs.
	EUCLID 500 BLOCK ASSOCIATION This group gardens 100% organically with a wide variety of vegetables. They have running water, electricity, a stereo, a basketball court for night play, and a huge mural painted by the kids. They keep the garden open all year round with a food pantry on Saturdays, children's workshops, church services with a live band and an annual senior citizens day.
	EUCLID AND PINE BLOCK ASSOCIATION Pine St. and DuMont Ave. n 1981 neighbors came together to turn this small corner lot in East New York into a thriving community farm. Today the garden boasts harvests of fresh vegetables from tomatoes to collard greens, as well as fresh cherries, pears and flowers. Membership is mostly made up of senior citizens, many of whom have lived in the neighborhood since they were children. Last year a new gazebo was built to shelter neighborhood gatherings. Children from local PS 242 visit the garden to help with clean up activities and to learn about planting vegetables and fruits.
	FANTASY GARDEN Fantasy Garden is an eclectic mixture of herbs, vegetables, annuals and perennial flowers, which are interspersed with shrubs, fruit trees and vines. Minnie Pearl and Norton (the two resident ducks) are the landlords who demand food, water and affection for the privilege of being tenants and recipients of the fresh eggs you can eat. Our mission: Unity in the Community; The World.
	FIRST QUINCY STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN 397-401 Quincy St.-Tompkins and Throop This vegetable garden sponsored by the block Association received material and technical assistance from TPL and GrowNYC. A large pavilion and tool shed occupy the rear of the garden. Bluestone pathways with some old sidewalk slabs were added. The garden also features a master compost station with a scale to record contributions. The Green Guerillas helped the gardeners create a mosaic mural. A rainwater harvesting system catches water from an adjacent building. A special feature is a memorial dedicated to fallen black firefighters.
	FLORAL VINEYARD GARDEN The garden keeps the neighborhood looking presentable with their trees, rose bushes, vegetables, and the sweet smell of herbs and mint. They keep themselves happy with events like barbecues, birthday parties, and art programs with children.
	FLUSHING AVENUE TENANTS ASSOCIATION 1036 Flushing Avenue Started in 1986, this garden consists of a narrow lot on a commercial street between two of the few remaining apartment buildings in this semi-industrial area. The garden has very elaborate and brightly painted wooden fences and gazebos, a large decorative planting area in the front, and raised beds for vegetables in the back. The gardeners have created a permanent barbeque area for roasting pigs, which are shared with neighbors during summer celebrations. Gardeners place all produce grown on a table in the garden for visitors to sample and share. This block is already overburdened with the fumes and noise of heavy truck traffic and will be quite desolate if this garden is eliminated.
	GARDENS OF UNION Union St bet.4th Ave & 5th Ave
	GIL HODGES 534 Carroll Street The garden sits on a historic piece of Brooklyn Dodger history, on the site of the former rooming house where legendary baseball star Gil Hodges and others stayed while playing at nearby Washington Stadium, in the days before Ebbetts Field. This small garden has an open plaza with benches, surrounded by trees, flowers, and raised vegetable boxes used by students from PS 372, The Children's School.
	GREENE ACRES COMMUNITY GARDEN 324 Franklin Street Time's Up! Spent the summer of 2001 working to start a new garden in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The weed-and rock filled lot on the corner of Franklin and Greene Aves. Is preserved under the Garden Trust, which means is was taken off the auction block and is now protected, and intended to be used permanently as a community garden. This huge lot is used for vegetable and ornamental planting, and community gatherings. There is a diverse garden membership and is a very active group.
	HALSEY/LEWIS/STUY. CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC. 409-415 Sumner Avenue The most beautiful (and also healing) spot in the neighborhood. This garden has fruits, vegetables, and there are flowerbeds on three hills facing the street. There are plots for family and individual planting. For children they show movies and have an annual Easter egg hunt. They also hold the block party there and make the garden available for community barbeques and birthday parties.
	HART STREET VEGETABLE GARDEN 249 Hart Street
	Herbal Garden This Garden has many fruit trees, grapes, cherry, peach and apples. It has 2 murals drawn by the children, lots of vegetable beds, and some shrubs. The most unique thing about this garden is that there are ten families, each coming from a different country, and they all live in harmony. They involve many neighborhood children in summertime workshops about gardening and arts & crafts, keeping them busy and preparing them to be the leaders of the future.
	HIGHLAND PARK CHILDREN'S GARDEN Jamaica Avenue & Cleveland Street The only Children's Garden in existence set up by the NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation Dept. & Board of Ed. Presently run by community volunteers and public schools 771 & 89. The garden is part of Highland Park. There are 4 vegetable sections with annuals, perennials, herb corner, shady nook, strawberry patch and new this year bird & butterfly garden. There is a composting project.
	HULL STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN 196 Hull Street Wrought iron fencing encloses this beautiful community garden. Over 20 vegetables, herb and flowerbeds provide seasonal produce for neighborhood residents. Other amenities include a lawn, pond and underground irrigation. What was once abandoned private and public property, this community garden opened in the summer of 2001 to much neighborhood fan-fare. It is now permanent open space.
	HUMAN COMPASS GARDEN Sackett St, Columbia St
	INSPIRATIONAL GARDEN l Brooklyn, NY 11213
	JANE BAILEY MEMORIAL GARDEN 327-329 Greene Avenue Thirteen years after its opening in 1986, this gardens mostly senior citizen volunteers continue to share their harvest with the needy. The garden’s five apple trees provide energy and shade to over-heated children in the summertime. The garden produces vegetables, hosts art projects and provides a gathering space for the community.
	Jefferson Street Community Garden 321-323 Jefferson Street
	J.H.S. 126 - "ERICSSON JHS GARDEN" 424 Leonard Street A triangle garden with large trees and vegetable beds. The garden is used for classroom learning. Each class has two boxes, where inner-city kids learn about nature. The language arts class holds poetry readings there.
	LINCOLN ROAD GARDEN This is an attractive vegetable garden founded in 1992 and used by senior citizen residents of this community of Caribbean immigrants. There are very few NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation in the densely populated Flatbush area and Councilwoman Una Clarke had requested that this site be withdrawn from the auction in order to construct a combination senior citizens park and children's playground in cooperation with the gardeners.
	LOLA BRYANT COMMUNITY GARDEN 93-95 Reid Avenue Greene Reid and Patchen Block Association started a vegetable garden on this large lot in 1981. The garden produces large quantities of fruits and vegetables, which are shared with neighbors, particularly senior citizens. The garden sits on a lot, which abuts the backyards of the adjacent buildings on Lexington and Greene Avenues. The gardens provide security and a pleasing view to these neighbors.
	MAMA DEE'S GARDEN 1397 Bedford Avenue Since 1994, this has been a vegetable garden that provides food for its members and the community. The garden is used for summer picnics and barbeques. Groups of neighborhood children often join the eight core garden volunteers working at this site. The garden received money from the Brooklyn Borough Presidents office to construct a chain link fence around the garden. Community board eight supports the permanent preservation of this site as a garden.
	MCLOUD COMMUNITY GARDEN Once the Powell Street Block Association, the McLoud Community Garden is a very large site across from city park near the elevated train tracksin a mixed industrial area of Brooklyn. It contains a picnic area and a large number of vegetable beds which are well used by community members. The gardeners at Powell Street have joined the Ocean Hill Brownsville garden coalition and are helping their neighbors lobby the local community board for preservation of the gardens in the area. The garden provides a recreational space for neighbors who have moved into the newly built affordable housing on the adjacent blocks. The garden was started in 1991, and has received an influx of many new gardeners, plantings and activity in the last couple of years.
	NEHEMIAH TEN GREENTHUMB BLOCK ASSOCIATION This Garden has many fruit trees, grapes, cherry, peach and apples. It has 2 murals drawn by the children, lots of vegetable beds, and some shrubs. The most unique thing about this garden is that there are ten families, each coming from a different country, and they all live in harmony. They involve many neighborhood children in summertime workshops about gardening and arts & crafts, keeping them busy and preparing them to be the leaders of the future.
	NEW VISION GARDEN Brooklyn, NY 11207
	PIER 4 BQE, Montague St, East River
	PHOENIX GARDEN 2037 Fulton Street-Somers Street and Rockaway Avenue The Phoenix Garden truly means a great deal the community with 45 members who grow everything from zucchini to collard greens. In addition to the members being able to enjoy the garden’s bounty, they also share their harvest with Neighbors Together, a soup kitchen serving 500 people daily. The Phoenix Garden represents how growing food locally can create a more sustainable community and how members of the community can directly invest it their community’s success and future.
	PONDEROSA GARDEN Brooklyn, NY 11236
	PROSPECT HEIGHTS COMMUNITY FARM 252-256 St. Marks Avenue The "farm" is a large garden with a communal park-like front area and 30 raised beds cultivated by a diverse group of gardeners. Winding paths lead through the garden and up steps, past retaining walls. The group holds programming for children and maintains an oversized vegetable bed just for them. Events include film showings and an annual Autumn Pumpkin Squash.
	P.S. 4K PARADISE GARDEN PS4K is a special education public school garden. Teacher Mary Scialis and Custodian Harry Peterson teamed up with neighbor Gladys Gonzalez to create a true oasis in the urban city, where the students can benefit from hands-on education. Students from several surrounding public &private schools visit the garden. The garden creates a caring environment with a pond, shade structure, gazebo, bird feeders, sand& water play tables, and raised beds filled with all types of vegetables and herbs. The perimeter of the garden is complete with perennials, annuals, various berries and trees. The kids are free to safely play on the extensive lawn. You enter by walking down a brick pathway with raised brick planters on either side. A memorial arboretum graces one side of the gate. A nice collection of lilacs is on the other side. GrowNYC installed a rainwater harvesting system in 2004, and provided substantial assistance in 1992.
	RED SHED COMMUNITY GARDEN 266 Skillman Ave
	ROGERS TILDEN VERONICA PLACE BLOCK ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY GARDEN 2601-2603 Tilden Ave. A vegetable and flower garden with cherry and apple trees, the group is even active in the winter, decorating the trees for Christmas. Brooklyn, NY 11226
	SANTOS WHITE GARDEN 2110 Mermaid Avenue  There are tree, shrubs, flowers and a variety of vegetables. Brooklyn, NY 11224
	SHAW BLOCK ASSOCIATION This garden is one of two formerly located on this residential block in the midst of the East New York Industrial Park. The garden across the street from Shaw Block Association garden was taken in 1998 by the New York City Economic Development Corporation as part of the redevelopment plan for the Industrial Park. The mostly Spanish-speaking residents of this block began developing this narrow lot in 1989 as a vegetable garden and children’s play area. The site contains a shaded sitting area as well as a kiddie pool and other children’s toys. Outside of this block there are very few houses. Most of the surrounding properties in the area are currently scheduled for industrial and commercial development.
	SHEFFIELD SOUTH BLOCK ASSN. GARDEN For 5 years this garden has had regular visits from children from the nearby day care center. From tomatoes to pumpkins, a group of 8 adults grow all varieties of vegetables. This garden’s new patio has witnessed countless domino and checker matches between local senior citizens. The patio is also used for summer weekend barbeques and holiday festivals. Eighteen years ago neighbors came together to turn this small corner lot in East New York into a thriving community farm. Today the garden boasts harvests of fresh vegetables from tomatoes to collard greens, as well as fresh cherries, pears and flowers. Membership is mostly made up of senior citizens, many of whom have lived in the neighborhood since they were children. Last year a new gazebo was built to shelter neighborhood gatherings. Children from local PS 242 visit the garden to help with clean up activities and to learn about planting vegetables and fruits.
	SPENCER’S LITTLE HEAVEN Spencer Place between Hancock and Fulton Spencer's Little Heaven is a small L shaped garden adjacent to Pratt Area Community Council Housing. The garden, designed by community members, with the expertise of GrowNYC features a picnic area & extensive plantings including butterfly attracting plants & herbs. There is a small pond. Along one wall is a mural created by community children that depicts a streetscape of the garden and surrounding block. There is also a U shaped vegetable bed that is shared by residents and children from PS3 across the street.
	SUMMIT ST. COMMUNITY GARDEN Summit St, Columbia St
	SUNSHINE COMMUNITY GARDEN 99-100 McKibben Street-Manhattan & Graham Avenues This garden is a peaceful sanctuary, where lots of flowers bloom, vegetables grow, and children are welcome to come and go. The group holds annual barbecues and all summer long there are workshops for the children. They also welcome family and church gatherings into the garden. Sunshine is a wonderful community garden located off of busy Graham Ave. The garden is mostly vegetable beds. In the front there is a star shaped children's bed & pint sized table in the children's area. There is a swinging bench-rose arbor in the middle.
	SURF SIDE GARDEN 2829 Surf Avenue The garden has vegetables, flowers and a play area for kids. The gardeners host barbeques, fish fries and parties for the neighborhood, year round.
	TEMPLE OF DAVID COMMUNITY GARDEN 744 Dumont Ave A small plot in Brooklyn, formally an empty lot. Now consists of 13 beds with a variety of vegetable plants and flowers. People admire the cherry tree however they are very sour. Youth are actively involved in the maintenance of the garden especially in the summer season. Activites include garden workshops, spring and summer fest, community plays, concerts and shows for the youth.
	THE AMAZING GARDEN Carroll St, Columbia
	THE BACKYARD Hamilton Ave, Van Brunt St, Summit St
	TLC SCULPTURE PARK 271-275 Glenmore Avenue This large garden boasts raised vegetable beds, shrubs, perennial & annual beds, fruit trees, a large gazebo, an arbor and a storage shed. There is an abstract wire sculpture, owl & carousel horse being painted. The garden belongs to TLC Transitional Living Community homeless women with a history of mental illness. They hold barbeques, concerts and occasionally art workshops.
	UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS GARDEN/ YOUTH FARM 600 Schenck Avenue The group began gardening only a few years ago, started by folks from the United Community Center nearby. It is a large site that uses its space for growing vegetables for sale at a farmers market as part of an after school and summer youth program. They work with the children in the daycare and after school programs by using the garden as an educational resource and for various cultural events throughout the summer.
	UNITED HERKIMER GARDEN CLUB 97 Herkimer Street United Herkimer Garden Club was established in 1981. Members of this Garden Club have succeeded in planting 3 flourishing gardens in an area, which spans nearly 2 blocks. Many area students use this garden as a quiet refuge to work on homework. All of the vegetables grown in the garden are given to the needy. Community barbeques are frequent on summer weekends.
	UPON THIS ROCK COMMUNITY GARDEN Upon this Rock Community Garden is located at the corner of Montauk and Pitkin Aves, between Montauk and Milford Street. It is bordered with beautiful flowers and roses and has a variety of fruit trees, ornamental trees and vegetables. One picnic table with benches and three compost bins are all located on 4000 sq ft of garden space.
	VICTORY GARDEN S/W/C Shore Parkway & Shell Road The garden exists on a strip of land, adjacent to the Coney Island Creek. An Eden that allows plenty of room for fruits, vegetables, and plants of many varieties. Shrubbery blocks the Garden from street view, and from visibility from a nearby business establishment. As the Creek continues to clear, the garden marks a perfect spot to watch the return of vegetation, fish and animal life to the region. It is a unique spot that will be a fine vista for creek and shore visits in the coming years.
	WALT L. SHEMAL GARDEN
	WESTBROOK MEMORIAL GARDEN 1233 Pacific Street There is a gazebo as you enter and about 5 trees, 12 garden boxes with a few vegetables and plants.
	WOODBINE STREET BLOCK ASSOCIATION 146 Woodbine Street