A Small Green Patch

2012 | Best Garden

There are plenty of beautiful, well-established gardens in this city, from the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to the Chinese Scholar's Garden in Staten Island. But if gardens are places that bring communities together and, more importantly, where new things are growing, this award should go to three connected plots on Bergen Street in Gowanus called A Small Green Patch. Until recently, the plots were empty, unused, and full of garbage. But after a successful Internet fundraising... More »