A 1970s Community Garden Offers Quiet in Park Slope
Spend a Tuesday evening at Garden of Union, where a neighborhood project became permanent NYC parkland in 1998.
🌿 From Neighbors to Parkland
Garden of Union brings a pocket of quiet to Park Slope, with birds giving this community garden a different soundtrack from the surrounding city. Its roots reach back to the 1970s, and the site began as a neighborhood project founded by Annie and John Thompson and their neighbors, alongside the garden that bears her name.
The grounds became permanent NYC parkland in 1998. That protection anchors a history of community care, with dedicated individuals and organizations maintaining the space over the decades. The story here belongs to the people who kept a shared green space going, right in the middle of Brooklyn.
You can step into the garden at 634 to 640 Union Street, with free public entry. It opens Tuesday from 5 PM to 7 PM. Leave a little room in your evening for an unhurried pause, and let the city carry on outside.
