Carmen Pabón del Amanecer Jardín
Carmen Pabón del Amanecer Jardín, also known as Carmen's Garden, is a community garden at 117 Avenue C in Manhattan's East Village. It covers about 4,635 square feet. The garden was created in the late 1970s by Carmen Pabón, a Lower East Side poet and gardener who died in 2016 at age 95. With help from volunteers, she cleared a vacant lot and planted flowers. Pabón also hosted poetry readings and ran a soup kitchen for the homeless. The garden was closed in 2000 when a nearby apartment building was built. It reopened in 2016 after 17 years, with Carmen Pabón cutting the ribbon shortly before her death.
This page was last edited on 2 February 2026, at 08:42 (CET).