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orange public Smart Compost Bin NYC
Live
10 easy ways to honor Earth Day in NYC that you can do every day
By Jennifer White Karp |April 22, 2024 - 4:00PM
The mini green roof at the front entrance of 345meatpacking.
Design + Architecture
Baby greens: How a mini green roof can spruce up the first floor of your building
By Celia Young |January 29, 2024 - 12:30PM
The author's two-chamber composter.
Live
Listen to me and my worm-pals: Composting is easier if you do it yourself
By Jennifer White Karp |October 4, 2023 - 5:30PM
A person putting a banana peel in a compost bin.
Products + Services
All the dirt on NYC's compost collection program
By Mimi OConnor |September 28, 2023 - 11:30AM
The roof garden at Via 57 West.
Live
Secret gardens: The plants and insects that inhabit NYC's green roofs
By Celia Young |August 21, 2023 - 3:52PM
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Small Spaces
How I once turned an illegal Brooklyn roof deck into my garden oasis

… was published in March 2019 We are presenting it again in case you missed it … Just a few pots … Did we have … with tar paperthat gray sandpaperlike material that in our case was fused together with black goop presumably tar A …   … Live … Small Spaces … gardening … In case you missed it … outdoor space … roof … How I once …

By Mimi OConnor |August 1, 2023 - 2:00PM
A roof garden on a Bronx apartment building
Design + Architecture
How to get a tax abatement to create an energy-saving green roof for your brownstone or apartment building
By Celia Young |July 26, 2023 - 3:30PM
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Renovation
What would it cost to add a bulkhead to access the roof of our NYC brownstone?
By Emily Myers |February 6, 2023 - 12:30PM
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Staging + Open Houses
The best plants for staging your NYC apartment to sell in winter
By Emily Myers |November 22, 2022 - 12:30PM
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Neighborhood Intel
The vegetable garden on my Brooklyn roof deck is my pride and joy. Here's how I created it

… I growapart from the strawberries and fig treeis grown from seed each year  I want to use all the space I have so I have … where to go I grow a long bean called bora I was given the seeds by a nurse originally from Guyanashes been growing … died so she actually came back to me to get some more seeds    I have long red beans green beans butter beans …

By Emily Myers |September 29, 2022 - 1:30PM