Name: Fifth Street Slope Children's Garden
Address: 626-27 E. 5th Street
Cross Streets: Avenues B & C
Neighborhood: East Village, Manhattan
Year Founded: 5/1/1993

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Originally, the Earth School used about half of the 5th Street gardenspace and community residents the other half. The garden became knownas the 5th Street Slope Garden because it sloped from west to east. Ithas been leveled with the addition of organic material. The gardenershave a preliminary design, which calls for a performance stage, apicnic area, planting beds, pathways and grape arbor with a prominentchildren’s garden surrounded by benches and hardy plant material. Theprincipals, teachers, staff and children from 3 nearby schools (PS 64,Tompkins Square Middle School and the Earth School) will be invited bythe gardeners to plan school related programs in the garden, includingscience learning, theatre, cultural arts and informal education. In2001 the garden received financial support from Councilwoman KathrynFreed.