Closing Bell: Public Gardening Project
When we cycled past last week, we were happy to see that the community garden along the Myrtle Avenue side of the Ingersoll Houses looked expanded and freshly planted. There was also a new sign identifying it as the “Ingersoll Garden of Eden.”
When we cycled past last week, we were happy to see that the community garden along the Myrtle Avenue side of the Ingersoll Houses looked expanded and freshly planted. There was also a new sign identifying it as the “Ingersoll Garden of Eden.”
Very good, Petebklyn.
And thanks, infinitejester.
NOP, that was beautiful. Thank you for that.
“the tall buildings seemed to spiral overhead, dizzying for me”
” they’ve settled into middle age, and a green and lush one at that.” – kinda like me —a lush yes, just not much green.
When I was a youngster in Brooklyn during the 1950s and 60s, housing projects were hard and bare.
This shot is indicative of their landscape’s growth over time, almost fulfilling their promise of “towers in the park.”
Now some housing projects have trees that soar over 60-feet high, half and more the height of the buildings. As humble as project architecture may be, the affect’s impressive, and nothing like the one I remember, when spindly sapplings were tied to sticks thicker than they were.
Sure, projects get a bad rap, but I knew several project kids who were happy living where they did. Roller skating or bicycling around their grounds, the tall buildings seemed to spiral overhead, dizzying for me — and very different from the low-rise domesticity of Crown Heights were I lived.
This was the “new” city. Interesting to see a photo like the one above, where they’ve settled into middle age, and a green and lush one at that.
im sure these gardens are a good thing for the people who live there, but for some reason i find the “garden of eden” quite funny.
*rob*