The Newtown Pippin - Our Historic Apple
A Newtown Pippin.
From Newtown Pippin! The Green Apple of NYC:
The “prince of apples” was cultivated nearly three hundred years ago in what’s now New York City, on the banks of the Newtown Creek. This sweet and tart green apple became so prized by the most cultured citizens of our new republic that Thomas Jefferson declared from France, “They have no apples here to compare with our Newtown pippin.” To this day, Newtown pippins are grown at the Virginia estates of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Monticello and Mount Vernon.
We are proud and happy to bring this beautiful heritage back to New York City. We are providing hundreds of Newtown pippin apple trees (and other delicious varieties for pollination) to local community gardens and environmental organizations over the next several years.
Let the abundance of these trees, and those to come, remind us of how lush and fertile the Newtown Creek and the surrounding city once were, and inspire our actions.
Newtown Historical Society has been identifying locations to plant Pippin trees donated by the Newtown Pippin project. Look for them at Maspeth Federal Savings in Maspeth, the Onderdonk House in Ridgewood and the 75th Street Block Association's community garden in Middle Village.
Above photo by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation/Monticello
The “prince of apples” was cultivated nearly three hundred years ago in what’s now New York City, on the banks of the Newtown Creek. This sweet and tart green apple became so prized by the most cultured citizens of our new republic that Thomas Jefferson declared from France, “They have no apples here to compare with our Newtown pippin.” To this day, Newtown pippins are grown at the Virginia estates of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Monticello and Mount Vernon.
We are proud and happy to bring this beautiful heritage back to New York City. We are providing hundreds of Newtown pippin apple trees (and other delicious varieties for pollination) to local community gardens and environmental organizations over the next several years.
Let the abundance of these trees, and those to come, remind us of how lush and fertile the Newtown Creek and the surrounding city once were, and inspire our actions.
Newtown Historical Society has been identifying locations to plant Pippin trees donated by the Newtown Pippin project. Look for them at Maspeth Federal Savings in Maspeth, the Onderdonk House in Ridgewood and the 75th Street Block Association's community garden in Middle Village.
Above photo by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation/Monticello
(L to R) David Daraio, Assistant Vice President, Maspeth Federal Savings, Christina Wilkinson, President, Newtown Historical Society & Council Member Elizabeth Crowley celebrate the planting of the Newtown Pippin tree at Maspeth Federal Savings.