A memorial for Adam Purple is planned for Sat., Sept. 26, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., at La Plaza Cultural, at the southwest corner of E. Ninth St. and Avenue C.
People are invited to speak and briefly share their memories of the famed gardens godfather of the Lower East Side and his legendary Garden of Eden.
Further details of the memorial are still being worked out.
Purple, real name David Wilkie, 84, collapsed and died on Mon., Sept. 14, while taking his bike over the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan from Williamsburg. The cause of death was apparently a heart attack.
