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Escape From Bushwick: Untermyer Gardens

Do you ever get that feeling that you're a little Bushwick-ed out? The reggaeton you hear from your bed blasting just a little too loud? Your graffiti-jaded eyes are begging for something green?  You've been to Tandem 3 times in the last week? It's time to flee Bushwick for a day, and we have the perfect escape

Escape From Bushwick: Untermyer Gardens

Do you ever get that feeling that you're a little Bushwick-ed out? The reggaeton you hear from your bed blasting just a little too loud? Your graffiti-jaded eyes are begging for something green?  You've been to Tandem 3 times in the last week? It's time to flee Bushwick for a day, and we have the perfect escape

Do you ever get that feeling that you’re a little Bushwick-ed out? The reggaeton you hear from your bed blasting just a little too loud? Your graffiti-jaded eyes are begging for something green?  You’ve been to Tandem 3 times in the last week? It’s time to flee Bushwick for a day, and we have the perfect escape…Untermyer Gardens.

These fantastic gardens, sprawling over 43 acres, once belonged to uber-lawyer Samuel Untermyer and were among “the most celebrated gardens” in America. Only now, some 70 years after Untermyer’s death…

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