Brooklyn's clever new salvage yard
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Lately, more than just a tree grows in Brooklyn. Try 80 acres of the most sustainable waterfront park ever devised. I'm Rich Awn and this is your Green Air Minute.
In it's heyday, the Brooklyn waterfront was a booming center of maritime trade and manufacturing, also a great political and military base of operations for most of North America. But as the revolutionary turf wars subsided, shipping technology increased, and modern economic realities set in, the site on which the Brooklyn Bridge Park is being constructed was for the last century or so, a miserable shell of forsaken urban decay.
Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
"It would be safe to say (that) in New York City at least and perhaps around the country or around the world, this is the world’s first almost completely recycled park. It’s an incredibly sustainable park. Everywhere you look and even in places you can’t see underground are things that were done here that are revolutionary and that will be probably setting a new standard on how to make a sustainable park."
Michael Van Valkenbergh Associates is the firm leading the landscape design charge on this project and have introduced progressive systems like irrigation ducts that use storm water runoff. Recycled materials like reclaimed granite blocks from the old Willis Avenue and Rosevelt Island bridges are being reshaped for use on the promenades, and the careful extraction of reclaimed wood from existing buildings on the site, some dating back to the time of Columbus, is being reconditioned for use on park benches and the frames of new structures within the park.
While it's only 7% complete, these home town eco sluggers in Brooklyn are looking to knock this triumph of a sustainable landscape design ball well out of the park. I'm Rich Awn and this is your Green Air Minute, for the video on the project and full interview with Commissioner Benepe, visit GreenAirRadio.com.
Photos by jackie weisberg - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackiew/4231595130/ and Michael Van Valkenberg Associates (via the New York Times) - http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2004/12/23/nyregion/
In it's heyday, the Brooklyn waterfront was a booming center of maritime trade and manufacturing, also a great political and military base of operations for most of North America. But as the revolutionary turf wars subsided, shipping technology increased, and modern economic realities set in, the site on which the Brooklyn Bridge Park is being constructed was for the last century or so, a miserable shell of forsaken urban decay.
Adrian Benepe, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
"It would be safe to say (that) in New York City at least and perhaps around the country or around the world, this is the world’s first almost completely recycled park. It’s an incredibly sustainable park. Everywhere you look and even in places you can’t see underground are things that were done here that are revolutionary and that will be probably setting a new standard on how to make a sustainable park."
Michael Van Valkenbergh Associates is the firm leading the landscape design charge on this project and have introduced progressive systems like irrigation ducts that use storm water runoff. Recycled materials like reclaimed granite blocks from the old Willis Avenue and Rosevelt Island bridges are being reshaped for use on the promenades, and the careful extraction of reclaimed wood from existing buildings on the site, some dating back to the time of Columbus, is being reconditioned for use on park benches and the frames of new structures within the park.
While it's only 7% complete, these home town eco sluggers in Brooklyn are looking to knock this triumph of a sustainable landscape design ball well out of the park. I'm Rich Awn and this is your Green Air Minute, for the video on the project and full interview with Commissioner Benepe, visit GreenAirRadio.com.
Photos by jackie weisberg - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackiew/4231595130/ and Michael Van Valkenberg Associates (via the New York Times) - http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2004/12/23/nyregion/
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