“Garden Stops” brings neighborhood gardens and their creeping vines into the historic station architecture. Patsy Norvell's steel railings enclose the station entrances and stairwells leading down to the tracks, and each has a floral motif. Curving steel bars give way to columns topped by abstract flower designs. The railings' vertical bars are punctuated by decorative squares, reproduced from the stations' original fencing. In the waiting rooms large tri-panel bay windows that are etched with floral imagery overlook the tracks, mediating between the indoor and outdoor space. The artist describes the work as "an environment that surrounds you rather than something you stop to look at. As viewers pass through, the work's elements evoke the history of the stations, trigger people's own memories, and spark a kind of inner dialogue about space, nature, and change."

Patsy Norvell (1942–2013) was a sculptor and public art installation artist living in NYC. She received her BA in art and mathematics from Bennington College and her MA in sculpture from Hunter College. Norvell had been active in the women’s movement since 1969, participating in an artist conscious raising group and helping to start others. In 1972, Norvell was a founder of A.I.R. Gallery which was the first cooperative gallery in the U.S. that showed solely women's work. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad. She has been the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and artist residencies for her achievements, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has lectured and taught, introducing Women in the Arts courses at Montclair State College and Hunter College in the 1970s. Permanent public art projects include installations at Newsstands in Manhattan, and plaza and lobby installations in Los Angles, CA, among others. Her work has received historical and critical acclaim, and in 2001, the University of California Press published Recording Conceptual Art, the book form of taped interviews Norvell recorded in 1969.