NEW YORK—She dedicated herself to repainting the graffiti-laden corner mailboxes in Hell’s Kitchen and watering the flowers of an abandoned lot on West 34th Street. Alice Parsekian had been looking over the West 34th Street plot for over 20 years, turning it into a garden.
The community has come together to carry on her work, and, two years after her death at age 86, a public park bearing her name has opened.
Alice’s Garden, a quaint lot of greenery above the Lincoln Tunnel owned by The Port Authority, is currently managed by the Hell’s Kitchen Neighborhood Association (HKNA) and Clinton Housing Development Company (CHD).
