A garden has begun to grow in the shadow of the Kosciuszko Bridge’s eastbound span, amid the grime of Brooklyn’s watery edge. The Native Nursery is at extreme odds with its surroundings, located within a Bermuda Triangle of three Superfund sites (the NuHart plumes , the Meeker Avenue plume and the Newtown Creek), bordered on all sides by some of the last bastions of Brooklyn’s industrial past.

The Native Nursery is the most recently opened portion of the 4-year-old Under the K Bridge Park, the privately operated public space that has been slowly transforming a particularly dirty, inaccessible and abandoned corner of Greenpoint into an urban oasis. The nursery has been in the works since late 2022 and held its first public event in 2023, but only launched its full slate of programming,

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