Green Map NYC

Year Round!

Open Thursdays, June 27 to November 21 Market Hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

This is a remarkable community garden where solar powered electricity catches the sun and powers the waterfall, tools and lighting for the shed. This community garden is maintained by local residents in association with GreenThumb, a branch of NYC Parks Department that supports converting vacant lots into beautiful community gardens. 6BC is open noon-6 on weekends, and has an event schedule online.

Herbs galore! Chickens, with a great nursery for pollinators. We love this garden

The Conservancy takes care of Central Park, which delights visitors and locals alike. As of 2020, there is finally a statue depicting real women in the park, marking 100 years after women gain the right to vote...

Four new affordable Lower East Side People's Mutual Housing Association apartment buildings designed by Chris Benedict RA and Henry Gifford are on East 3rd Street between Avenues A and D.

A treasured place in the community - anyone can shop at this Co-op and other co-op cards are honored. Working a shift a month saves 25% on organic food!

The curriculum is centered on sustainability at the Earth School. Outdoor bins in this primary school's garden for yard waste and for students' food waste. Awesome raised bed garden on the roof.

Great raised bed, solar and compost-heated greenhouse, bioswale and more in Open Road's student-designed garden.

This is an amazing park, planted especially to provide food for wildlife throughout the seasons. They have turned this into a native plant food forest and its one of the few places to forage in Manhattan. With the wonderful Solar One on the north end, the path south leads all the way through East River Park. Houses a 3-bin compost system for yard waste mid-park. Real riverside refreshment - however! The East Side Coastal Resilience - ESCR project is causing this garden to be distributed around the neighborhood. It will be some time before this wonderland returns to its full form.

Small and an open secret, this community garden in the East Village. 

A beautiful community garden with an epic performance and gathering area. Often open during the evening. Fabulous fireflies! And what a great variety of plants, many of which are labeled. Check out the pond, children's play area and raised beds galore! This is a wonderful place to feel at peace with nature.

Green Map System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world, using mapmaking as our medium. This organization created this Open Green Map platform, OGM2, with the GIS Collective!

2021- temporarily programming elsewhere while construction of the East Side Coastal Resilience project is underway nearby. Now in the process of relocating for the massive East Side Coast Resilience levee, this "Green Energy, Arts and Education Center" has an amazing permaculture-style native plant 'food forest'* that has food for several species, including humans. Their educational programming is terrific too!

Large garden built by New York Restoration Project, and now one of the NYRP's busiest gardens. Three bin composter for yard and members' food waste, with rainwater recycling and straw-bale shed!

Public drop off for compostable food and garden scraps, Sundays, through gate opening.

High school with integrated programs in environmental science has a great program - explore it here. Composting is part of the program and there are worm bins in classrooms, garden waste composting on the green roof and even a composting club. This NYC public school is located at 444 West 56th Street.

Children tend flowers and harvest vegetables and other plants as well as compost organic waste in this garden that contains 18 large planting beds. Photo from their website, which has great detail about all of New York Restoration Project projects!

A "green sanctuary" since 1978 with composting, bee hives and flowery rock, shade, native plant, and vegetable gardens. Fab website with photography by Foram Sheth.

This especially beautiful community garden houses 3 compost bins, 2 wire holding pens & a worm bin. It also contains a butterfly garden and is available for public visits and school programs. Find out more at https://ringgarden.wordpress.com/ - this photo is from this website.

A terrific nature center - a rarity in Manhattan - with a large-scale worm bin for community's food waste. Educational portable worm bin, too. It may still be closed, check online for updates

Donation Based Bike Workshop http://times-up.org Want to learn how to fix your bike? Time's Up! workshops and classes are free, however donations are welcome.

The Greene Hill Food Co-op welcomes new members who share the work and enjoy great prices on fresh organic and local food. Serving the communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy and Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, this good healthy social resource opened in 2011. Open Saturdays from 10am-2pm and Wednesdays from 6pm-10pm; store hours will expand as membership increases. Check it out! The website has recipes and co-op information.

Sixth Street Community Center has one of NYC's first CSAs (community supported agriculture programs) and is going strong. The Organic Soul Cafe opens weekly and there are often flim screenings, exhibits etc. Upstairs, there's Yoga and several organizations hard at work on food related issues.