We asked for it and here they are: the new bike share locations for 2012!
Victory Chicken
There’s been a huge boom in many cities in urban farming and eating local, and one of the next steps here in BK is backyard/rooftop chicken coops. As absurd as it may sound, many folks are doing it right; including a company called Victory Chicken, that has set up a system where you can RENT hens, a coop, and feed on a month to month basis, in case you fail… So for all you fledgling urban farmers out there, it’s springtime, so get on it! How can you resist a name like Victory Chicken?
Looking down over The High Line
From Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District up to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea, to the West Side Yards, near the Javitz Convention Center.
From the soon-to-be-released book Up On The Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces, available now for pre-order.
I require this book.
(Source: princetonarchitecturalpress)
Instrument, a digital craft agency in Portland, Oregon, commissioned Mark Warren Jacques to create some teepees meeting spaces for their new headquarters. Not only are the results aesthetically beautiful, they are made out of 95% locally salvaged materials.
In the spring of 2013, the Water Tank Project will work with talented artists, as well as local students, to transform New York City’s many water towers into public art installations to raise awareness about water conservation. Learn more at their website, or suggest a water tower in your hood that you’d like to see get a makeover!
Seattle’s Food Forest
Amazing but true: Seattle’s plans are underway to build an urban “food forest”, the first of its kind. A seven acre stretch of land 2.5 miles away from downtown Seattle will be planted with walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; all of which are free for the picking. This will be a huge step for urban agriculture and permaculture, and will probably be the coolest public park ever.
Artist Gwenyth Leech has been calmly sitting in the glass display area of the Flatiron Building, drawing on used coffee cups she has collected over the past few years, creating both recycling-centric art, and a kind of public art performance piece.
World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Expands its Territory
At 40,000 square feet, the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm in Long Island City is the largest of its kind. Anywhere. But the folks behind its growing success have decided that such an enormous space still doesn’t stand up under their ambitions.To hold onto their title, the Grange has recently decided to expand to a rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, adding more than 45,000 square feet to their current holdings.
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