Adam Purple and The Garden of Eden

In 1975, amid the crime-ridden Lower East Side, activist and artist Adam Purple began a garden behind his tenement that grew into a world-famous 15,000-square-foot artwork. This short charts its rise and the fight to save it.

A vivid snapshot of a vanished New York and the eccentric visionary who turned rubble into a celebrated garden.

film by Harvey Wang and Amy Brost

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