The Eleventh Street Community Garden is marked by a gated entrance situated between brick apartment buildings on East Eleventh Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A. This space is part of a larger movement that began in the nineteen…
East Village Community Gardens
Walk through the lush, volunteer-run green spaces hidden between the brick tenements of Alphabet City. This peaceful stroll highlights the neighborhood's rich history of 1970s activism, creative reclamation, and community solidarity.
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1. 11th Street Community Garden
2. El Sol Brillante
El Sol Brillante stands behind iron gates that open onto five hundred twenty-two East Twelfth Street. This community garden occupies four lots that were filled with the ash of four burnt-out buildings until Nineteen Seventy-Seven. While…
3. Campos Community Garden
Campos Community Garden sits as a sunny, five-thousand-square-foot patch of greenery on East Twelfth Street, tucked between apartment buildings in the East Village. The space is defined by its metal gate and the varied crops grown within,…
4. La Plaza Cultural
La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez is a corner lot marked by a tall chain-link fence and a dense, lush interior that stands in sharp contrast to the surrounding city sidewalks. Founded in nineteen seventy-six, this garden began when local…
5. Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community
The Francisco Pancho Ramos Community Garden is tucked behind an iron gate at seven hundred and three East Eleventh Street. It occupies a plot that was once vacant, like many of the community-managed green spaces created by residents across…
6. Green Oasis
Green Oasis occupies a series of lots on East Eighth Street between Avenues C and D that were once mounds of rubble, abandoned cars, and trash. In nineteen eighty-one, neighbors Normand Valle and Reinaldo Arana cleared the debris to create…
7. El Jardin del Paraiso
El Jardin del Paraiso covers nearly an entire acre on East Fifth Street, identified by a large, octagonal tree house built around the trunk of a mature willow tree. This space occupies nine contiguous lots where tenement buildings once…
8. 6th Street & Avenue B Community Garden
The 6th Street & Avenue B Community Garden occupies a seventeen-thousand-square-foot corner lot that was once the site of six demolished tenements. You can recognize the garden by the fence surrounding its perimeter, which was designed by…
9. Creative Little Garden
The Creative Little Garden on East Sixth Street is defined by its iron gate, which opens into a narrow, lush space tucked between taller buildings. Unlike many city community plots divided into individual allotments, this site functions as…