La Finca del Sur Community Garden: Bronx, NYC

Tucked into an unassuming footprint between the Major Deegan Expressway and the Metro-North tracks—with the subway running directly underneath—the garden occupies the exact spot of the former 138th Street railroad station. Rather than focusing on manicured aesthetics, the space operates as a hands-on site for volunteering and community building. Visitors and locals gather here to grow vegetables, continuing the site's transformation from a once derelict, trash-filled eyesore into a productive neighborhood farm.