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Apartment-Lined Eastern Parkway Named Brooklyn’s Greenest Residential Block

The win marks a shift toward inclusive urban participation in the 30-year contest organized by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with the borough president’s office.

group of neighbors in matching greenest block tshirts posing in front of a mural
This year's winner of the residential category in the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest, the stretch of Eastern Parkway between Franklin and Bedford avenues
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Overview

  • The stretch of Eastern Parkway between Franklin and Bedford avenues in Crown Heights took top residential honors for 2025 as the first block composed mostly of apartment buildings to win.
  • Judges praised the Crown Heights Keepers for installing colorful benches, free communal herb gardens and educational plant labels that draw neighbors into urban gardening.
  • First-place winners in the residential and commercial categories each receive a $300 prize, with Ralph Avenue between Prospect Place and Park Place crowned best commercial block.
  • Sugar’d, a Caribbean restaurant on Newkirk Avenue in Flatbush, won the greenest storefront award for its vibrant window displays and sidewalk plantings.
  • More than 100 blocks competed this year in the contest launched in 1995 to promote streetscape gardening, tree stewardship and community building.