2. West Side Community Garden, Upper West Side

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Located on West 89th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus, the West Side Community Garden is an oval shaped garden which hosts a variety of movies, workshops and talks that are free to the public. With a cordoned off area for individual plots, the rest of the garden is layered with flowers and trees and offers benches if you want to rest for a while. The garden was founded in 1976 when the trash-filled area was designated for an urban renewal project.