Heart of Brooklyn’s offices are tucked between a Greek diner and daycare center on Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights. From the street, you can’t even see the folks working upstairs in support of some of New York’s leading cultural institutions.

The places they represent are not so easy to miss. Heart of Brooklyn is a partnership of Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Museum, the Prospect Park Zoo, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and the Brooklyn Public Library. The big guns.

This winter marked HOB’s 10th anniversary, and we got to make cookies for the folks at their Grand Army Plaza birthday party. Chocolate and ginger cookies, with royal icing in HOB’s signature red:

Their logo is a 6-petal flower, representing their 6 member institutions. Our cookies weren’t nearly as cute as these PS 9 glee club kids in their Heart of Brooklyn beanies. They sang “Empire State of Mind.” COME ON, the best.

(photo by Samantha June Sutcliffe)