Green Map NYC

Charting the ever-changing environment of New York City!

This Green Map includes a variety of amazing sustainability resources around NYC collected at various times over the years. New sites are welcome - just click Propose a Site on the menu, select 'Green Map NYC' and add yours.

This map, originally printed in 1992, helped spark the global Green Map System. This nonprofit continues to house the local NYC Green Map project which benefits New Yorkers and the network by piloting new concepts and mapmaking resources.

We have also published popular theme Green Maps in print and online, all linked to GreenMapNYC.org on energy (conservation, renewable and climate change), composting in Manhattan, the youth view of Lower Manhattan (LoMap) and the cool map, Refresh LES. We create cycling and walking tours, presentations, exhibits, workshops and education modules to involve more New Yorkers in building a brighter future together. You are welcome to get involved. Suggest a site at bit.ly/addGMNYC

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Union Square Greenmarket

Year Round! Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, & Saturdays 8:00 AM 6:00 PM Come here to experience the changing of the seasons! New York City is so lucky to have GrowNYC Greenmarkets! 50 differen...

6BC Botanical Garden

This is a remarkable community garden where solar powered electricity catches the sun and powers the waterfall, tools and lighting for the shed. This community garden is maintained by local residents...

Hattie Carthan Garden

Herbs galore! Chickens, with a great nursery for pollinators. We love this garden

Central Park Conservancy

The Conservancy takes care of Central Park, which delights visitors and locals alike. As of 2020, there is finally a statue depicting real women in the park, marking 100 years after women gain the rig...

Lower East Side People's Mutual Housing Association Apartment Buildings

Four new affordable Lower East Side People's Mutual Housing Association apartment buildings designed by Chris Benedict RA and Henry Gifford are on East 3rd Street between Avenues A and D. While being ...

4th Street Food Co-op

A treasured place in the community - anyone can shop at this Co-op and other co-op cards are honored. Working a shift a month saves 25% on organic food! While concentrating on selling organic and loc...

The Earth School

The curriculum is centered on sustainability at the Earth School. Outdoor bins in this primary school's garden for yard waste and for students' food waste. Awesome raised bed garden on the roof. The E...

Lower East Side Garden

Great raised bed, solar and compost-heated greenhouse, bioswale and more in Open Road's student-designed garden.

Stuyvesant Cove Park

This is an amazing park, planted especially to provide food for wildlife throughout the seasons. They have turned this into a native plant food forest and its one of the few places to forage in Manhat...

The Secret Garden

Small and an open secret, this community garden in the East Village.

6B Community Garden

A beautiful community garden with an epic performance and gathering area. Often open during the evening. Fabulous fireflies! And what a great variety of plants, many of which are labeled. Check out th...

Green Map System

Green Map System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world, using mapmaking as our medium. This organization created this Open Green Map platform, OGM2, wi...

Solar One

2021- temporarily programming elsewhere while construction of the East Side Coastal Resilience project is underway nearby. Now in the process of relocating for the massive East Side Coast Resilie...

Pleasant Park Garden

Large garden built by New York Restoration Project, and now one of the NYRP's busiest gardens. Three bin composter for yard and members' food waste, with rainwater recycling and straw-bale shed!...

Lower East Side Ecology Center Garden

Public drop off for compostable food and garden scraps, Sundays, through gate opening. Gate is open year-round: Sundays 8am to 5pm. Come in and enjoy the quiet green space and art, as well as the mate...

High School for Environmental Studies

High school with integrated programs in environmental science has a great program - explore it here. Composting is part of the program and there are worm bins in classrooms, garden waste composting on...

Riley-Levin Children's Garden at Swindler Cove Park

Children tend flowers and harvest vegetables and other plants as well as compost organic waste in this garden that contains 18 large planting beds. Photo from their website, which has great detail abo...

Clinton Community Garden

A "green sanctuary" since 1978 with composting, bee hives and flowery rock, shade, native plant, and vegetable gardens. Fab website with photography by Foram Sheth....

Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden (RING)

This especially beautiful community garden houses 3 compost bins, 2 wire holding pens & a worm bin. It also contains a butterfly garden and is available for public visits and school programs. Fin...

Inwood Hill Park Nature Center

A terrific nature center - a rarity in Manhattan - with a large-scale worm bin for community's food waste. Educational portable worm bin, too. It may still be closed, check online for updates...

Times Up Bike Work Shop - Williamsburg

Donation Based Bike Workshop http://times-up.org Want to learn how to fix your bike? Time's Up! workshops and classes are free, however donations are welcome. Wednesdaynights are open workshops where ...

Greene Hill Food Co-op

The Greene Hill Food Co-op welcomes new members who share the work and enjoy great prices on fresh organic and local food. Serving the communities of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy and Prospect H...

Sixth Street Community Center & CSA

Sixth Street Community Center has one of NYC's first CSAs (community supported agriculture programs) and is going strong. The Organic Soul Cafe opens weekly and there are often flim screenings, exhibi...

FAB - Fourth Arts Model Block & East 4th Street Cultural District

East 4th Street Cultural District preserves a network of historic spaces that have been home to artists for over 100 years. The arts groups are working together to establish a sustainable cultural com...