Brooklyn Heights’ largest public garden: The other vista of the Heights Promenade
Thousands of tourists walk onto the Brooklyn Heights Promenade every day to capture the iconized view of lower Manhattan in their closing camera lenses and wide eyes. But steps away, right behind, the view is the Promenade Garden that sports four-season species of colorful flowers and various other plants all maintained by the public.
“It’s basically the neighborhood’s backyard,” the garden’s professional gardener, Matthew Morrow told the Brooklyn Eagle. “People are mostly coming here to see that landscape, which is great, but several of them … have been turning around and looking at the gardens, and all of the comments are positive.”
The Promenade Garden Conservancy was established in 2009 to save and beautify the 1,826-foot-long green space that borders the promenade.