By Tequilos Angeles Minsky
“A Quick Escape,” “Small Oasis” and “Quiet Space” are words some have used in Jefferson Market Garden.
A stroll through the small, very green Jefferson Market Garden provides lush, herbal visual relief from our concrete jungle and a transient respite from the warm, radiant sidewalks. Located in Greenwich Village on Greenwich Avenue (entrance) between Sixth Ave. and W. 10th St., the Garden reopened two weeks ago. Opening hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily unless it’s Monday.
Visitors will locate cut hedges, seasonal flowers and a small pond of water lilies. During those transitions from last season and those difficult times, and as the lawn closed, lawmakers fueled its beauty into constant conversion.
The huge apple wood benches regularly scattered along the narrow trail now face, you can’t have, trails too narrow to keep a distance of 6 feet from walkers. Masking, social estrangement and safe practices are components of the rules in force.
The lawn is built on the site of the women’s detention center which closed its doors in 1973. It is adjacent to the Jefferson Market Library and the land has been transferred to the Parks Department and entrusted to a collection of neighbors, the Jefferson Market Garden Committee, which continues to raise money, the site and make an innumerable volunteer contribution.
Eat it. Drink it Do it. Take in the city with our help.
Eat it. Drink it Do it. Take in the city with our help.