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Summit Street Community Garden
Summit St. bet. Columbia St. and Hicks St.
Brooklyn
Directions: Google Maps | MTA Trip Planner
Acres: 0.10
This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
Summit Garden is a symbol of the spirit of this neighborhood’s residents. In the 1950s, this maritime community bustled with pier activity and shopping, but it suffered after the loss of much shipping industry to New Jersey. Moreover, the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, or BQE, from 1946 to 1964 cut it off from the larger community to the east and north, including much of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill.
