“Pocket parks — also known as miniparks and vest-pocket parks — are small patches of landscaped nature generally built on vacant building lots or scraps of city land that fall between the cracks of real estate interests… (Thomas Hoving, former New York City parks commissioner) recognized that they offered the city not only ‘lungs’ and a respite from noise, but opportunities for collective action by the surrounding communities whose help he enlisted in reclaiming the land. He believed that the communal act of making these spaces of quiet itself promoted harmony.” – from “City of Earthy Delights,” George Prochnik, Opinion, The New York Times, December 13, 2009.