Community members of all ages visit the garden in the Morrisania section of the Bronx to escape the turmoil of the city and enjoy the peaceful and relaxing qualities of nature. Now permanently prot ...

A project of Trust for Public Land, Taqwa Farms is a unique urban park in that it generates more than 2,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables per year within its two acres. Local families and residen ...

A group of ten ambitious children and adults transformed a lot of garbage and debris that was home to drug sales and other illicit activities into a magnificent community garden. The garden, which ...

Elementary school students joined community residents in Brooklyn, New York, to transform a trash-filled lot into a vibrant play space. The result is Carter G. Woodson Children's Park, which fe ...

This East New York park was created through a partnership of the nonprofit organizations the Trust for Public Land (TPL) and Groundwork, Inc. Students and staff from P.S. 328 participated in the pa ...

Permanently protected by the Trust for Public Land, this southern Washington Heights neighborhood garden was once a six-foot mountain of garbage. Determined to improve the neighborhood's declin ...

One of the 64 community gardens permanently purchased by the Trust for Public Land, Dias y Flores Garden offers local residents a tranquil, shaded garden with a brick patio to accommodate visitors ...

The Trust for Public Land transformed an empty lot into a community play space that includes playground equipment, a merry-go-round, a full-court basketball court, baseball diamond, artificial turf ...

The Route 9A Greenway, a 5.4-mile urban boulevard that currently stretches from Battery Park to 59th Street, provides a new vehicular and pedestrian corridor along New York City's Westside wate ...

In 1992, fire destroyed the local supermarket in the low-income Upper Falls community of Rochester, NY. Having lost their only option for affordable, healthy food many neighbors were forced to trav ...