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I first met Anne Apparu on Friday, November 16, 2012, when I volunteered at Shore Soup, a makeshift soup kitchen at 92nd Beach Street in the Rockaways.  She was cooking soup for people who had suffered huge losses at the … Continue reading →

Javitz Center is installing the mother of all green roofs! When complete (probably next year in 2013), it’s going to be 8 glorious acres, the second largest green roof in the entire country and, for sure, the largest green roof … Continue reading →

Question: What do you get when you combine $800 million, a Brownfield Site in the South Bronx and four of the top architecture firms in New York City? Answer:Lots of green roofs! Eight green roofs, to be exact.  Via Verde … Continue reading →

Think “Kite flying”: Carefree children running through open spaces with a colorful kite flying high above. Now think “Hell’s Kitchen”:  Densely populated, urban, gritty New York City. But on Sunday, September 23, 2012, from 1 to 4 p.m., for the … Continue reading →

Having created the single largest commercial rooftop farm in the United States in the Borough of Queens on Northern Boulevard apparently wasn’t enough.  Ben Flanner, head farmer of Brooklyn Grange, the young man with the irresistible twinkle in his eyes, … Continue reading →

In the last few days, I’ve been to a “Rooftop Reading Series,” “Poetry from the Rooftops” and a full-production play, “Slowgirl,” at the fabulous new LCT3 Claire Tow Theater, which was built on the roof of the Beaumont Theater. The … Continue reading →

Trading carbon monoxide fumes for oxygen-producing, edible plants, Whole Foods Corporation, the world’s largest retailer of natural and organic foods, is building its first greenhouse-topped grocery store in Gowanus, Brooklyn.  Scheduled to open during Summer 2013, what was originally planned … Continue reading →

Joining the ranks of past exhibitors Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Goldsworthy and Jeff Koons, Tomás Saraceno has this summer’s one-artist exhibit on the spectacular Metropolitan Museum of Art rooftop.  Like last year’s Big Bambu (by artists and twin brothers Doug and … Continue reading →

Typical summer day dilemma in NYC:  Free swing dance lesson with live George Gee big band music at the beautiful Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center, or a free Philip Glass concert in lovely Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City?  I … Continue reading →

It’s getting difficult to have a favorite NYC public access green roof. There’s everyone’s favorite, the winding, magical road of the High Line.  There is the meticulous triangle lawn at Lincoln Center, a favorite roof on which to cool off … Continue reading →