Starts at Brooklyn Academy of Music Triangle Garden (intersection of Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York 11217)

Subways: #1,2,4,5,D,Q to Atlantic Ave.

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Seventeen private gardens may be visited on this self-guided tour through the three historic Brooklyn neighborhoods of Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights. Free shuttle van service will be provided, circling between the three neighborhoods. This may be your last chance to see a pair of adjacent gardens in Prospect Heights. These two gardens occupy the western edge of Brooklyn's first botanic garden, Parmentier's Horticultural & Botanic Gardens. They currently fall within the footprint of Bruce Ratner's proposed 22-acre Atlantic Center and are threatened with condemnation through use of eminent domain.

Highlights of the tour include a triple lot garden with several cascades & ponds, a double lot garden with brick cottage & mature trees. Both of these gardens evolved over a long period of time created by individuals, avid gardeners,long time residents of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, who owned adjoining properties and instead of filling space with building additions, used the empty spaces to create garden oases. $15 Advance tickets sold at Tillie's, 248 DeKalb Ave. and the Forest Floor, 659 Vanderbilt Ave. $20 Day of tour tickets at Tillie's, the Forest Floor, or the BAM Triangle Garden, intersection of Fulton St. and Lafayette Ave. Advance ticket holders must exchange their ticket for a tour map at one of these locations before beginning the self-guided tour.

The Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District, sponsor of the Garden Walk, is a coalition of three Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights, with a common interest in improving quality of life through greening of the urban environment. Garden Walk ticket sales support the Annual Fall Bulb Give-Away for planting flowering bulbs in public spaces throughout the Garden District.

$15 advance tickets, $20 day of tour.

Homepage: http://www.historicfortgreene.org
Garden Walk Hotline: (718) 707-1277.