From Weeds to Wonderful: A Three-Week Garden Makeover With a Horizontal Fence
The first party guests arrive in the newly finished backyard Editor’s note: This is the latest in our long-running Bed Stuy Reno, a renovation diary written by a Brownstoner reader about a budget...
View ArticleSend Us Your Horizontal Fence Pics
Wow. The fencers have spoken. Yesterday’s Bed Stuy backyard makeover sparked a wave of inquiry into the horizontal cedar-plank fence. And a 2006 post of ours about a similar horizontal fence has been...
View ArticleMore Than Trees Grow In Brooklyn: Check out These Five Working Farms
Brooklyn is known for a lot of things — Coney Island, the Nets, hip-hop, cheesecake. But farming? It’s probably not the first thing Brooklyn brings to mind. But working farms do exist in New York...
View ArticleBrooklyn Returns to Its Pot-Growing Roots
With Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson no longer prosecuting minor marijuana offenses, and Downtown Brooklyn about to get its first pot dispensary, the borough is on the verge of returning to its pot-growing...
View ArticleYour Horizontal Fence Pics
Horizontal Fence Week continues! After Monday’s hit Bed Stuy backyard makeover, we saw a surge in interest about horizontal fences and asked readers to send us their own fence pics. The photo above is...
View ArticleTour Brooklyn’s — and the World’s — Largest Rooftop Farm
As Brownstoner readers know, Brooklyn’s days as an agricultural hotspot didn’t come to an end 300 years ago. The borough is home to the world’s largest rooftop farm: Brooklyn Grange’s...
View ArticleBed Stuy Community Comes Together to Win Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest...
Bainbridge Street between Malcolm X Boulevard and Stuyvesant Avenue is the winner of this year’s Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest. For 21 years now, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been hosting the...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s Greenest Blocks From 1995 to Today
For more than two decades, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has annually bestowed the title of Greenest Block in Brooklyn on the borough’s most verdant streets. Just yesterday, they announced the latest...
View ArticleThe Rooftop Garden at 60 Water Street in Dumbo Is Finished! (Photos)
The 6,000-square-foot rooftop garden designed by James Corner Field Operations at 60 Water Street in Dumbo is complete. Brownstoner toured it when it was under construction, in April. The landscape...
View ArticleSend Us Your Fall Garden Photos
Brooklyn gardens are in their final flowering. How is your garden looking? As the air gets crisper but before the leaves start falling in earnest, we’d love to share your scenes of autumnal Brooklyn...
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