Six "secret" gardens of New York
There are so few deserted places in New York that residents simply have nowhere to hide from the streets crowded with pedestrians and cars. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York Botanical Garden and Central Park are all often crowded with crowds of people too.
Here are six “secret gardens” where you can enjoy the peace and natural beauty of nature.
Manhattan
Fields and gardens of the Church of St. Luke
487 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
Admission is free.
Openning time: Barrow Street and North Gardens open daily from 8 in the morning until dusk.
Openning time: Rectory garden open Mon-Thu, from 10 in the morning to 5 in the evening.
Rules: "Please do not talk on your mobile phone, do not smoke or drink alcohol in the garden."
The Church of St. Luke, built in 1821, covers an area of two acres. The territory is divided into two gardens North Gardens and Rectory Garden. The first has a more formal setting. The benches are located along the walkway, and outside the garden you can see the tall buildings of the city. Closer to the church is Rectory Garden.
Here you can see forged tables and chairs, and the rose garden is located next to it. The ruins of the former parish (burned down during a fire in 1981) and the church itself creates a sense of peace.
Jefferson Market Garden
Greenwich Ave. between 6th Ave. and West 10th St.
Admission is free.
Opening hours: open from the afternoon, except Mondays (from 1 April to October).
Before visiting we recommend to check Monthly flowering guide
The garden was created in the 1960s, after the demolition of a women's prison, which was disturbing residents of the surrounding areas with noise. Now the garden pleases with silence. Along the border of the garden there are benches for visitors, and between them there is a well-groomed lawn with flowers. The garden has a rose garden, a waterfall and a greenhouse.
New York Ground Room
141 Wooster Street, btw. Prince and Houston Sts., 2nd Floor
Opening hours: from September 10, wed - sunfrom noon to 6 hours of the evening.
Admission is free.
The installation "New York Earthen Room" is on permanent display Dia Art Foundation in New York and occupies the whole floor. A huge space, empty and quiet - the exhibition hall with white walls, only the entire floor is covered with earth. In addition to the black earth layer on the floor and the damp smell of the soil there is nothing. Viewers look at the "Earthen Room" from the corridors adjacent to the hall.
New York critic Jerry Saltz, usually not inclined to sentimental, about the "Earthen Room" yet writes as the most touching piece in his life: “Here I experienced an almost shamanic uplift of feelings. The smell of the earth became a magic wand, by the wave of which I was transferred to the bushes and yards, through which I cut off the road on my way to school, which breathed damp on me. The impression was complete, but there was not a single image in it, only the adoption of abstraction. The entrance to the hall is blocked by a glass barrier, which is only a few inches above the level of the ground layer, it is impossible to get there, but at the same time I filled this space with myself ... I was breathtaking of how dead and at the same time alive a sculpture can be. ”
For the installation, it took approximately 200 cubic meters of land with a total weight of 127 tons, which covered the hall area in 335 square meters.
Queens
Curtis "50 Cent" Community Garden
117-15 165th Street, Queens, New York
Opening hours: open 6 days per week, except Sunday.
Admission is free.
Three-meter blue funnels collect rainwater for plants in the garden and give the design a cool industrial tone among the abundant blooming flower beds.
Benches, located along the long side of the garden, in summer gather people of different ages.
Bronx
Bartow Pell historic estate and garden
895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, NY 10464
Garden, work time: daily, from 8: 30 hours until dusk.
Museum, opening hours: Wed, Sat and Sun, from noon to 4 hours of the evening.
Garden: admission is free.
Museum: $ 5 entrance fee for adults, $ 3 for seniors and students.
The former Bartow-Pell home in Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx is the only surviving one of the once numerous wealthy estates in the area, abandoned after the state acquired the land and created a park here. The park began to be built at the end of the 19th century and bought up all the land, a huge area of 1100 hectares, three times larger than Central Park in Manhattan.
This house was bought by the state in 1888, and it was attempted to be leased to individuals and organizations. Most likely, he would suffer the same fate as the rest of the houses if, in 1914, they were not interested in organizing gardeners (the International Horticultural Club), which had established a garden here and had the house repaired. This organization still exists.
Despite the fact that the house belongs to the state and is now a museum, the organization spends about $250 thousand annually on maintaining the house. To attract visitors, many of the house's objects are borrowed from leading museums, so that, despite the little expressiveness of the house from the outside, inside it is a branch of the Metropolitan with interiors from the early 19th century.
Staten Island
Samadhi Garden and Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
This is the only museum in the United States entirely dedicated to Tibet and its culture. Some objects of the museum collection have no analogues even in Tibet itself, where most of the cultural values turned out to be destroyed during the Chinese occupation.
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