South Bronx Green Roofs

The new abatement would limit subsidies for midtown roof gardens and divert them to communities in eastern queens the south bronx and central brooklyn among others.

South bronx green roofs.

The first of its kind in the bronx it is one of 14 greenroofs funded through the bronx initiative for energy and the environment of boedc and the borough president aldolfo carri n jr. Minimizing the weight of the green roof was a key consideration in project planning. You know a rooftop is an undiscovered prairie. Lombard for news habitat for humanity is breaking new ground unveiling its first ever green roof in the south bronx on wednesday.

According to sustainable south bronx on a 90 degree day a green roof is about 80 f while a black roof is 175 f causing substantial wear and tear. The program has a 90 placement rate after four years of operation. These students are the youngest members of green living technologies installer certification program that graduated in march 2010. A university of michigan study showed that a 21 000 square feet 464 000 green roof will save 200 000 over its lifetime.

The city s parks department. And obviously in parts of the south bronx there s not that much space for community gardens but one thing we can do as we install more green roofs is to think about these roofs as a place for gardens. Michael nixon from the development office was our worthy guide explaining the benefits of having a green roof. Depending on a building s structure food can be grown up there.

The green roofs tax abatement was restructured and reauthorized last year with the goal of catalyzing the development of green roofs across the city s 62 square miles of roof space. The bronx county courthouse opened its environmentally friendly green roof in mid september 2006. To celebrate bronx week may 12 19 the bronx economic development corporation sponsored a green roofs tour. Bronx teacher steve ritz has scheduled his discovery high school students to install a state of the art green roof in east hampton long island this coming friday august 13th.

Green roofs can extend a roof s lifespan by two or three times. The 2 400 square foot carpet of flowering sedum plants atop. In depth and weighs 10 to 11 pounds per sq ft when fully saturated with rainwater.