The Kingsland Wildflowers project is the result of neighborhood partnerships between local businesses and community organizations committed to environmental sustainability and community benefit.
Media
Video by 7cinema (2021). Funding generously provided by the Green Roof Researchers Alliance through a ‘21 grant from The New York Community Trust. To learn more visit: greenroofsnyc.com
Video by NYC Audubon (2018) telling background about Kingsland Wildflowers project and partnership with Broadway Stages.
Video by Greenroofs.com (2018). Video photo credits courtesy of rooflite®; New York City Audubon and Lark Song Media including photographs from Mitch Waxman and Niki Jackson.
Video by GCFF (2021) about how the Kingsland Wildflowers roof was funded and its connection to the Newtown Creek.
Vision and Timeline
It started in 2015 when Alive Structures assembled a project team including Broadway Stages, Newtown Creek Alliance, and NYC Audubon to apply to build 24,000 square-foot green roof habitat for native birds and pollinators through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF).
Take a peek into the construction process!
Other Green Roof Resources
Green Roofs in NYC (download the 2016 report)
Working with partners in the Green Roof Researchers Alliance, The Nature Conservancy has released the most comprehensive estimate of green roofs in New York City. The project merges publicly available data with remote sensin g technologies to create data and maps that help better understand this asset and can be used to guide policy making and city planning. View the data here.
Green Roof Researchers Alliance
The Green Roof Researchers Alliance (GRRA) is a consortium of over 50 researchers, educators, and policymakers from 19 different institutions. Founded and coordinated by NYC Audubon in 2017 with funding from The New York Community Trust, the GRRA is studying the benefits and potential of green roofs, developing policy, creating curriculum, and working to improve and expand green roofs in New York City. The GRRA is synthesizing knowledge and needs for advancing green roof investments in an effort to improve sustainability, resilience, biodiversity, and social equity in access to urban nature for all New Yorkers.