$600K Butterfly Garden To Reopen In Park Slope By Fall, City Says

PARK SLOPE, NY — A $637,000 makeover to the mini-park on Seventh Avenue and 18th Street will be completed in the fall, the Parks Department said.

The renovation at the Butterfly Gardens include reconstructing pavements, expanding existing planted areas and building new fences, benches and trash cans to the half-acre park, according to the agency. The project was announced in 2015 and the city started construction on it last year.

The Gardens, near the Prospect Expressway, was space left over when the highway was built in the 1950s and used to be a dumping ground for the neighborhood, according to the Park Slope Civic Council.

Volunteers reclaimed it in the early 2000s, eventually dubbing it the Butterfly Gardens in 2004, and turned it into an "outdoor learning center" with the city for students at local schools including P.S. 10.

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