Something Nice About Brooklyn

BECAUSE WINTER IS NIGH, REMINDING HIM THAT EVEN MEMORIES OF SOFT KISSES AT A CORNER TABLE IN A SOHO BAR CAN, IF NOT PROPERLY TENDED, WILT, Recharger wants to stare at a photo of Green Acres, a community garden at the intersection of Franklin and Greene Avenues in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn–the very intersection where Jake Gyllenhaal boinked Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. Built by local residents with the help of GreenThumb— the largest community gardening program in the country–and Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project, the garden is not only a place where wildflowers turn white men green, it is also a water conservation project that collects rain for plants and a pond. Best of all, for a $10 annual membership fee, neighborhood residents actually own their plots.

– Ricky Sit