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Caribbean Life, N 28 OVEMBER 20-26, 2020
Health
The new garden and bench inside Fort Greene Park pays tribute to Brooklyn
By Ben Verde
A newly planted garden
in Fort Greene Park
honors the frontline
workers of Brooklyn
Hospital who lost their
lives during New York
City’s first coronavirus
surge.
The garden, planted
through a partnership
with the nearby hospital,
the Fort Greene Park
Conservancy, and the
Parks Department, features
six freshly planted
limber pine trees meant
to represent each of the
hospital workers who
died during the pandemic’s
first wave. Outside
the new garden sits
a bench with the names
of the healthcare heroes
engraved on a plaque.
“We wanted this
memorial to be in Fort
Greene Park, which is
our next-door neighbor
and which shares the
same provenance as our
hospital,” said Brooklyn
Hospital Center President
Gary Terrinoni.
“When I visit this bench,
I am reminded of the
bond between the hospital
and our incredible
community, who held
all healthcare workers
in their hearts and lifted
us up throughout this
ordeal.”
The trees honoring
Nanette Ham, Kelvin
Taylor, David Wolin, Ed
Becote, Rafael Cargill,
and Louis Fontaine are
planted near the southwest
entrance to the
park on Dekalb Avenue,
overlooking the hospital
grounds, and are expected
to grow to be over
50 feet tall in maturity
among other pines that
have been there since
the 1800s.
Brooklyn Hospital
Center has been on the
front lines of the coronavirus
pandemic since
it reached the city in
late spring, and was one
of the first medical centers
to implement a prescreening
unit outside
the hospital to assess
patients for possibly
COVID symptoms.
Across the country,
more than 1,700 healthcare
workers are estimated
to have died from the
coronavirus. More than
half a year since the outbreak
of the virus in New
York City, the country
is headed towards what
experts predict could be
the “darkest days” of the
pandemic, as the Five
Boroughs stare down a
“dangerously close” second
wave.
As they forge ahead,
Terrinoni said, the staff
at Brooklyn Hospital
will continue to honor
those they’ve lost.
“We move forward
with tears and memories,
but also with a
clearer sense of purpose
and hope, while never
forgetting those we
lost,” he said.
Additional reporting
by Kevin Duggan
Hospital workers lost to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Fort Greene Park
garden honors
healthcare workers
lost to pandemic
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