Liz Christy Community Garden

In the early 1970s, activist Liz Christy and fellow Green Guerillas began throwing “seed bombs” around the city, hoping that the plants would take root and blossom amidst the trash and rubble. They wanted to show administrators how abandoned spaces could be transformed into pockets of natural beauty. Today, the East Village garden that bears Christy's name features a grape arbor, a pond that’s home to red-eared slider turtles and koi, birch trees, wildflowers, and several vegetable plots and fruit trees maintained by community residents. With the city as the soundtrack, it's a charming urban bower.