The East Village Secret Gardens

Let’s spend a Saturday afternoon visiting many of the tiny but interesting gardens hidden on the streets of the East Village in Manhattan.

We can meet Saturday August 1st at 1:00pm on the corner outside El Churro, Allan Street and East Houston Street.

Closest subway is the F train 2nd Ave. Station which has an exit right across the street on Allan.

Unbeknownst to many, there are quite a number of tiny creative community gardens between our meeting point and East 14th Street and most are only open to the general public on Saturday afternoons. I have a map showing 15 of them but I’m not sure we will be able to visit all or if all will be open. We should be able to visit most of them but we will need to walk quite a bit so please wear good comfortable shoes. These gardens have been created in vacant lots sometimes after struggles against developers wishing to build there. The community won most of these cases and the gardens now exist in perpetuity. Some gardens are more creative than others but most are quite worth a visit.

Along with the gardens we will wander the East Village streets very often a great location for street photography. This will be a good opportunity to practice diverse genres of creative photography as well as some good physical exercise.

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Please be on time! The NYC Subway System is a hellscape of unimaginable delays that will wreak havoc on your mind, body, schedule, and soul. Plan your trip with some extra time!

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