Organized by a group of neighbors around a piece of city-owned land that had sat abandoned for decades in the neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the 61 Franklin Street Garden was founded in 2013 as a community garden space. It was the fastest transition of land ownership to the City’s Parks Department, which has never rescinded a community garden in its’ history. It continues to operate as a community meeting place to grow organic vegetables, herbs, & flowers, hosts school garden education visits and serves as a beacon of diverse ecology in a district with the some of lowest of green space per capita (by population) in all of New York City.