Cultivate HK is creating a more sustainable and interconnected Hell's Kitchen. We facilitate a range of community projects that connect people to green spaces, deepen civic engagement, promote inclusion across difference, and strengthen our commitments to our neighborhood and the people that make it special. Cultivate HK works in partnership with nonprofits, city agencies, community groups and CHDC tenants to realize a greener, healthier Hell's Kitchen.
CHDC's Horticulture team strives to create more green spaces in Clinton Hell's Kitchen and motivate the community to engage with them. We believe green spaces provide opportunities for connection between neighbors, create a healthier urban environment, and offer the community a reconnection to nature. By planting native species, we provide habitats for local pollinators and wildlife. Block by block, we cultivate sidewalk gardens, key parks, and bike lanes to transform the neighborhood for healthier living and bringing people together.
For the past 30 years, CHDC has created green spaces for its tenants, because CHDC believes everyone deserves access to green space. With each development, CHDC works to include extensive gardens, courtyards, green roofs, and open space areas.
Multiple Locations
Throughout our buildings, CHDC develops roof gardens and courtyards, offering access to green spaces that promote health and wellness for our tenants. Every CHDC supportive housing building and dozens of our affordable housing buildings include extensive garden and open space areas. We believe that plants and open spaces are essential elements of healthy life in NYC, and all New Yorkers, regardless of income, deserve access to beautiful, peaceful gardens.
Multiple Locations
CHDC's sidewalk gardens offer a diverse mix of street trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and bulbs along streets and sidewalks, increasing "living" spaces throughout the neighborhood. CHDC is continually improving, maintaining, and expanding these sidewalk gardens to beautify Hell's Kitchen and promote a green, healthy neighborhood.
410 W 40th St
A project of Metro Baptist Church, with assistance from CHDC, this 4,000 square foot rooftop farm on West 40th Street, just west of 9th Avenue, grows produce for donation to the church’s food pantry. With inspirational views of the city, the farm’s mission is to create a more food secure urban community through collaborative farming, education, and community initiatives. Learn more about the Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project…
463 West 34th
Tucked away on 34th St, adjacent to Lincoln Tunnel approaches, this park is named in honor of Alice Parsekian, its long-time sole caretaker until 2010. Following her death, the garden has received renewed community commitment. Volunteers used historic bricks salvaged from the demolition in preparation for Hudson Yards Park to build the paths for this hidden oasis. Alice’s Garden one of many Key Parks, a network of parks in the Hell's Kitchen area developed by CHDC in partnership with the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association. These parks require a key. All Key Parks are accessed using the same Cultivate HK Park Key. Keys are available from Community Board 4 for $2. Call (212) 736-4536 for more information.
454 West 35th
Developed in 1995 on West 35th Street, near 10th Avenue, Bob’s Park was the first playground constructed in Hell's Kitchen since the 1930s. The park is dedicated to Bob Kennedy, a long-time resident of the block, and serves as a recreational outdoor space and lunch spot for neighborhood businesses. Bob's Park is one of many Key Parks, a network of parks in the Hell's Kitchen area developed by CHDC in partnership with the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association. These parks require a key. All Key Parks are accessed using the same Cultivate HK Key. Keys are available from Community Board 4 for $2. Call (212) 736-4536 for more information.
565 West 51st Street
This beautiful green space on West 51st Street was developed as a beautiful restful park and part active community garden. It is dedicated to the memory of Juan Alonso, a long-time resident, and devoted community gardener. The Garden will be expanded further in conjunction with the redevelopment of the neighboring Irish Arts Center. The Juan Alonso Community Garden is one of many Key Parks, a network of parks in the Hell's Kitchen area developed by CHDC in partnership with the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association. These parks require a key. All Key Parks are accessed using the same Cultivate HK Park Key. Keys are available from Community Board 4 for $2. Call (212) 736-4536 for more information.
409 W 39th Street
After a neighborhood participatory design process and community redevelopment, Teresa's Park reopened in 2013. Occupying a small corner of Hell’s Kitchen, on West 39th Street just west of 9th Avenue, the Park celebrates the legacy of Theresa Mattia, a long-time resident of Hell’s Kitchen, and offers a calm and restful haven in the midst of the Port Authority Bus Ramps. Teresa's Garden is one of many Key Parks, a network of parks in the Hell's Kitchen area developed by CHDC in partnership with the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association. These parks require a key. All Key Parks are accessed using the same Cultivate HK Park Key. Keys are available from Community Board 4 for $2. Call (212) 736-4536 for more information.
505 West 52nd Street
Located on West 52nd between 10th and 11th Avenues, Oasis Community Garden invites you to come in and smell the roses—and wander our pathways fashioned from the bricks of tenements that once stood on the lot—and daydream on our lawn until the fireflies come out—and admire the butterflies as they flit among our native perennials. Find out more at http://www.oasiscommunitygarden.com.
Many of CHDC's buildings have beautiful community spaces with kitchens, courtyards and roof gardens used to host events for tenants. They are available for public rental for a variety of uses and events.
Community Event Spaces Brochure Highlighting five different buildings with community event spaces.
CHDC develops affordable housing for households with a wide range of incomes in the Clinton/Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea neighborhoods, as well as affordable retail and not-for-profit space.
CHDC supports the historic Middle West Side (MWS) by providing technical assistance in planning and development for the future.
CHDC creates and manages affordable spaces for artists, performers, and musicians to support and expand cultural activities in the Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen community.