In the Cutest Neighborhood Item Ever department: Gianna Abruzzo, a longtime Battery Park City resident, has created a series of patches — that is the old-school patches for fabric — featuring local parks. She did it to commemorate her family’s devotion to Teardrop Park, but has now created a park lover’s and/or collector’s dream.

“When the kids were younger, we were spending every single evening in Teardrop for picnics,” she said. “We would bring other families, share food, that kind of stuff. It was this really strong connection to Teardrop — it became so important to our lives. I wanted to celebrate that.”

Riffing on the teardrop shape, she first thought a design could go on T-shirts. But then the idea of their “patch” of green space took hold — and she was reminded of the national park patches that parkgoers collect. She knew what elements she wanted in the design — the rock wall, the shape, a squirrel — one time her daughter was attacked by one who was foraging in a garbage can — and a scooter, since her three kids, now 15, 13 and 10, learned to scoot there.

“At first it was just my personal project. I found a designer, found a company and had them made — but I didn’t know what i was going to do with them,” Gianna said. (Before kids, she evaluated the effectiveness non-profit grants).

But one park was not enough. She figured out how to design them herself and started a series for parks her kids loved in the neighborhood. Washington Market Park was next, and then her family got involved in the effort to stop the governor from building a memorial in Rockefeller Park. So that came next. And one made at the request of the PS 234 PTA. There are eight total.

About a year ago, she made a connection with a scavenger hunt company called Questing, and they loved the idea of creating a quest that ends in the playground — the patch is the prize. And so Gianna then created a website for ordering patches, named the collection Our Play Patches, and printed canvas tote bags with a space for each patch, so kids can collect the whole series. There are 11 playgrounds Downtown that she will feature, and she donates 10 percent of her sales back to each park — either to a friends group, if it exists, or to New Yorkers for Parks. Eventually she hopes to expand beyond Manhattan.

“My mission now is to celebrate parks and playgrounds,” she said — especially since they were so key to raising her daughters, now 15, 13 and 10. “Teardrop has been my backyard this whole time, and it is the greatest hidden gem in Manhattan; Rockefeller we call the front yard. This seems like a great way to support them.”