We do n’t normally associate the urban environment with on - the - vine vegetables and rearing flowers , but the community plots in West Harlem ’s Riverbank State Park are visual trial impression that gardening is awake and well in New York City ( at least it was in summer 2009 , when these pic were look at ) . roost improbably above a wastewater intervention car park along the West Side Highway , the Riverbank complex offer a football game / association football field , a skating skating rink , a theater , and a eatery , along with stunning views across the Hudson River to New Jersey .
If gardening can make it there , it can make it anywhere .
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