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North Brooklyn Farms, a Beloved Nature Escape, Will Close at the End of 2019

The farms are closing to make space for a new stretch of Domino Park, owned and operated by the farm’s landlords.

North Brooklyn Farms, a Beloved Nature Escape, Will Close at the End of 2019

North Brooklyn Farms, a Beloved Nature Escape, Will Close at the End of 2019

The farms are closing to make space for a new stretch of Domino Park, owned and operated by the farm’s landlords.

North Brooklyn Farms, a Beloved Nature Escape, Will Close at the End of 2019

For nearly seven years, Williamsburg’s North Brooklyn Farms has provided Brooklynites with a welcoming space to eat, drink, and idle on a grassy stretch of the East River. A functioning urban farm, it’s also served as a venue for comedy shows and weddings, the site of a mobile sauna pop-up, and a spot for people to commune with nature, and each other, in a space that is fully public but feels deliciously private. It feels especially sad, then, to announce that the farm will close down in December to make space for a new stretch of Domino Park, owned and operated by the farm’s landlords, Two Trees Management Company. 

The farm launched in 2013, headed by farmers Ryan Watson, who recently left to start a cidery upstate, and Henry Sweets. They signed a two-year lease on a space in…

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