By Jill Colvin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MIDTOWN — A garden that has stood empty, growing weeds and cobwebs since the death of its legendary tender, is finally on its way to becoming a community park.
Before Alice Parsekian died in January at the age of 86, the small green space, huddled between two concrete walls atop a Lincoln Tunnel overpass on W. 34th Street between Ninth and 10th Avenues, had been a neighborhood gem.
Numerous newspapers wrote about the ever-blooming peonies, irises and lilac trees that were tended to by the tireless Parsekian, who was also known around the neighborhood for touting around a paintbrush and paint cans, fixing up mailboxes and fire hydrants, and removing posters from lampposts along the quiet stretch.
