a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Green Building, Parks and Open Space on May 11th, 2009
The Daily Green has a nice piece on the greening of hard/brown/gray/concrete/wasted spaces in NYC: Hunting for Green in the Urban Jungle.
Posted in Parks and Open Space on Feb 12th, 2009
Bette Midler’s got a point:
Consider the positive impact when, during the 1930s, New York City built more than 578 new playgrounds and 15 swimming pools, added more than 20,000 acres of parkland, and created more than 84,000 construction jobs. The FDR-era WPA understood that building great public spaces was not indulgent or wasteful; indeed, it […]
Posted in Parks and Open Space, Water on Jun 3rd, 2008
William C. Thompson Jr. and Robert Kennedy Jr. had an op-ed in the Times last week about Ridgewood Reservoir that calls into question some Parks Department plans to “renovate” the long abandoned reservoir as athletic fields.
It begins:
MANY people are astounded to learn that there is a teeming wildlife preserve in New York City. Ridgewood Reservoir […]
Posted in Livable Streets, Parks and Open Space on Apr 17th, 2008
GREEN DEETS 016: Ben Harper 01 from George Spyros on Vimeo
.Last year, the Pearl Street Triangle in Dumbo was converted–in a matter of weeks–from a parking lot for a dozen or so cars into a cozy little public plaza. Nice little project, and a great example of how “little” projects like this can get […]