In the Heights: A garden spacious, precious, almost unimaginable today
Private Refuge Owned By 'Miss White' Now Houses Two Apartment Buildings
Back in the day, before there was a Promenade, moms took their children to play in Miss White’s garden. But first they had to pass muster with Miss White.
The garden was hers, after all, the most extraordinary of Brooklyn Heights open spaces in private hands that anyone can remember.
“She felt like a character in Dickens,” recalled Grace Gray Faison, who was widowed at age 20 during World War II and was raising her toddler son, Jeff, in the neighborhood during the final years before the garden’s 1948 closing.