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Zinsser Community Gardens:
Zinsser Community Gardens:
A patchwork of thriving, resident-tended mini gardens next to the Zinsser ball field, between the Aqueduct, Broadway and Edgar's Lane. Here people are growing all kinds of vegetables and flowers.
To apply for a spot, contact Parks & Rec at 914-478-3400
Prezi by HHS student Aleksandra Sokolova
Zinsser Community Gardens has received a recent torrent of residential support and interest. Many thanks go to Brooks Ballard, Mihai Cuibus, and Patrick MacNeil (and some of their children!) for leading the garden's renovation, and the students who completed projects with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund. (See below)
Student YCAF Projects in Zinsser Gardens
Student YCAF Projects in Zinsser Gardens
Bloomberg Philanthropies awarded the Village two rounds of Youth Climate Action Fund grants in 2024 and 2025. Each of the projects listed on this page is thanks to funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies' Youth Climate Action Fund. For more on Bloomberg's YCAF, see bullet #5 here.
Zinsser Gardens 1933, courtesy Hastings Historical Society. Read reminiscences from the Historical Society here.
ZCG History
ZCG History
From the Museum in the Streets marker:
The gardens were community vegetable gardens begun as Victory Gardens during World War I. The park was the estate of Frederick Zinsser, village mayor and owner of the local factory that produced mustard gas during the war. Locust Wood, his house, no longer standing, was built in 1828 by Anthony Constant. The area is the probable site of a September 30, 1778 skirmish (called the Battle of Edgars Lane) in which Hessian mercenaries marching north from Yonkers were ambushed by American troops, mostly from Virginia.
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