You know we love a Spring moment and this year we really leaned into green!

If our annual District Satisfaction Survey taught us anything, it’s that you all love plants, and so do we – so we put in over 1,400 plants across the district this season!

Looking to the future, our plans include planting more perennials that will live in place, and bloom throughout the year, to create a more sustainable landscape throughout the whole district. We will begin this transition in stages and have started with 15 tree pits on Myrtle Avenue from Hall to Classon. You can find 920 new annuals dotting the pits on the northside of Myrtle, and they are stunning if we do say so ourselves 🙂 Year over year, we will continue to plant annuals until all 61 of Myrtle Avenue’s planted tree pits are filled with these beauties.

As we do every year, we partnered with The Horticulture Society of New York to plant the perennials and over 900 annuals in the tree pits between Flatbush Ave Ext and Hall.

Another exciting addition came to the Greenstreet triangle at Carlton and Myrtle. Known as Person’s Square, we wanted to bring even more life to this corner of the district and planted almost 300 new native plants in the two gardens there. Putting the green in Fort Greene!

Spring is also the time we bring back the furniture in the Myrtle Avenue Plaza, including our bright orange umbrellas that never cease to bring smiles as they brighten the space. As soon as the furniture came out we saw friends, classmates, co-workers, couples, and kids taking advantage by settling in for meals and cups of coffee from local businesses. 

We continued to spark joy by cleaning up all the furniture and sidewalks with a good power washing, and clearing out any graffiti that popped up. 

Now all that’s left to do is enjoy! 🍃