For the first time in the 30-year history of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s block-by-block gardening contest, an apartment-building block won the top prize: as Brooklyn Paper reported, the Crown Heights Keepers, on Eastern Parkway between Bedford and Franklin, took the 2025 title.
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For 30 years, Brooklyn blocks have competed to be the greenest. Last year, for the first time, an apartment block won.
For the first time in 30 years, an apartment-building block — Crown Heights Keepers on Eastern Parkway — won Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Greenest Block contest, proving renters can transform neighborhoods too.
For 30 years, Brooklyn blocks have competed to be the greenest. Last year, for the first time, an apartment block won.
For the first time in 30 years, an apartment-building block — Crown Heights Keepers on Eastern Parkway — won Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Greenest Block contest, proving renters can transform neighborhoods too.
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