Great News! Here are compost drop-off alternatives!
Even though the garden is closed due to Covid-19 and compost is unlikely to reopen anytime soon, here is a list of alternatives in NYC to drop off your food scraps.
Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (about 15 min bike ride from the garden). Here is their google maps link.
Astoria Pug - Astoria, Queens.
These sites allow you to drop off your food scraps at a designated time and date, either for free or for a small fee.
Domino Park (Williamsburg)
North Brooklyn Compost Project (Greenpoint & Williamsburg)
BK Rot (Bushwick)
NurtureBK (Prospect Lefferts Garden & Flatbush)
Naturebased NY (Gowanus)
Microhaulers: Microhaulers will pick up your food scraps at your home for a fee. They often rely on no- or low-emission vehicles for transportation, such as bikes.
BK Rot is NYC’s first bike-powered composting service and doubles as an environmental training program for young people of color.
Reclaimed Organics (Manhattan- South of 86th Street)
BK Rot (Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bedford-Stuyvesant)
Vokashi (NYC + Westchester)
@AstoriaPug (Astoria)
BK Green Cart (North Central Brooklyn)
https://wp.nyu.edu/sustainability-nyusustainablog/2020/06/23/community-composting-options-in-new-york-city/