NYC Gardens
In a city of concrete and glass, it may surprise you to know that New York City contains hundreds of public gardens–there are flower-filled rooftops, serene Zen gardens inside museums, vegetable patches tucked between tenements. Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry, authors of Garden Guide: New York City, walk us through a few of them in this NY Voices episode segment from mid-2007:

Toy Tower Garden
One of the gardens in the guide has had major changes this week: the Toy Tower, a 65-foot-tall assemblage/artwork was dismantled (see a photo essay), about a year after it’s creator, Eddie Boros, passed away. According to a story in this week’s NY Times. It’s known informally as our own Watts Towers, the structure stood for years and is disintegrating; the future of the gardens it shaded is in question as well.