Greenway Botanical Garden at the Naval Cemetery

I used to live near the the Naval Cemetery Landscape, and it is wild to weave your way through the Navy Yard — steps away from the BQE — and walk into this hidden verdant place. Formerly an unmarked burial ground associated with the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, it was the first public open space to be developed by the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative along the 26-mile Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway. As the designers Nelson Byrd Woltz write: "The immersive site experience provides a sense of peace, refuge, and remembrance within an otherwise dense urban environment."