Deborah Young helped turn her neighborhood into one of Brooklyn’s greenest.
Greenery practically erupts from the sidewalks and stoops of Deborah Young’s corner of Bed-Stuy, particularly amid the Victorian-style homes lining Stuyvesant Avenue, where the sidewalks are lined with flowerpots and well-tended treebeds overflowing with flora.
“Everybody Black down there pretty much was agricultural. When my mom got here, she's like, ‘I'm done ,’” Young said, laughing.However, under her father’s tutelage, Young planted her first seed — a morning glory — at the age of 3.
Smith, another lifelong neighborhood resident, said he hadn’t heard the news about Seasons’ ill fortunes.In the back of the nursery’s greenhouse hangs a sepia-toned portrait of a young woman: Young’s mother, photographed in 1944 at age 19. The greenhouse, known as "Dottie," was named after her.Arun Venugopal/GothamistMany of the neighborhood’s old-timers, Young said, have passed.
Too few of the newer residents, she said, joined the block association, or got to know their local representatives, or neighbors – although the string of “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” designations is seen as a sign of enduring cooperation in Bed-Stuy.In time, she worried that Bed-Stuy would come to resemble Manhattan, or at least her vision of it, “where you have a four-story building with five doorbells and nobody knows the people that live under them, above them, next to them.
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