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