Archive for Green Things
New York City Council encourages Urban Farming & Rooftop Greenhouses
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Recently, the New York City Council passed two bills supporting consumption and production of local foods and farming.
- · Buildings with a rooftop greenhouse will not be considered an additional story by the Department of Buildings
- · Greenhouses will be exempt from height limits as long as they take up less than one-third of the rooftop.
- · The city will maintain a database of unused spaces in order to transform them for urban farm use.
- · Another bill will require city facilities like jails and health centers to purchase locally grown food.
The bills are being sent to Mayor Bloomberg, where he is likely to sign them into law . From inhabitat New York City article
Tudor City: A Serene Wooded Escape From The City.
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Manhattan is dotted by many neighborhood or “pocket parks”, “all with a bit of peace in every nook“. If you make a left on 41st Street you’ll find, Tudor City, a serene wooded escape from the city.
“One of the most beautiful small parks is truly hidden in plain sight. The privately maintained Tudor City Greens, with charming pebbled paths, dazzlingly maintained vegetation and even one original 1927 lamppost.
The south side especially has the look of a botanical garden, with varied shades of green (and yellow and purple and red) leaves placed in strategic contrast. The view is dominated by Tudor-style apartment buildings of the enclave, named a city historic district in 1988”.
The residents of the Tudor City neighborhood have free access to these public, “secret” parks and enjoy such events as an Easter Egg Hunt, Spring Concert Series (May through September 7th), Halloween Party (October 31st–6pm), Fall Planting Day November 6th—10am to 2pm), Menorah Lighting (December 1st–6pm), Decorating for the Holidays (December 4th — 11am) and the Christmas Tree Lighting (December 9th —6pm ).
The neighborhood has a grocery/deli, a café, cleaner and even its own highly rated southern Italian restaurant, Convivio.
If a Real Estate Blog Falls in An Empty Forest…
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If a tree falls will the mushrooms be edible?
If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody is around to hear it fall, does it make a sound?
So that’s the question asked in the NY Times (Blogs Falling In an Empty Forest).
It seems from this survey that 90.7% of folks who think about these things said yes. So with that inspiration, I felt I could move forward with this blog.
Other deep philosophical questions like the sound of one hand clapping or timing the bottom of the Manhattan real estate market will be answered in due course.
