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Williamsburg Bridge Greenway

03/03/2009

Williamsburg Bridge Dreams

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Tuesdays my dog and I usually walk in and out of the city via the Williamsburg bridge. Today the bridge is covered in snow, so instead here's a picture. Technically it's a NYC Greenway, but as you can see it's more like a Grayway.

I want to get Michael Bloomberg (or Reverend Billy if he winds up being the mayor) to help me (us, really) get the whole thing planted as a vertical garden. Here are some examples from France and Japan:

Quai-branly

Shimizu

Simply covering the bridge in sedum and moss would make it a delightful thing to walk over in the summertime, do a lot to mitigate urban heat island effect, look beautiful from far away, and turn our ugliest of the five bridges into a huge statement of NYC's seriousness about sustainability. It's practically shovel-ready!

Here's more information about architectural vertical gardening.

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