On Monday, Delean Ward was hard at work. On a trip to New York to stay with his dad, trading the sandy shores of Miami for the bustling streets of Brooklyn, Ward was tending to a yellow celosia on the sidewalk of Eastern Parkway, between Franklin and Bedford avenues.

Ward dug out the annual and put it in a new pot to be hung from an alternate side parking sign, where it joined other flowering plants in offering some shade and beauty to one of the many colorful seating areas created along the stretch of the busy Crown Heights thoroughfare.

That section of Eastern Parkway, with its towering street trees and nonstop traffic, was today crowned the winner of the borough’s annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn competition, the first block of mostly apartment buildings to win the competition in its

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