The damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, as documented above by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, included flooding in the South Ferry subway station in lower Manhattan, home to the lovely tree installation by the Starn brothers we reported on four years ago. Back then, the station looked like this:
Posts Tagged ‘New York’
Trees after Hurricane Sandy
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, Plants worldwide, Questions & discussion, tagged city, ecology, hurricane sandy, New Haven, New York, sandy, subway, trees, weather on 31 October 2012| Leave a Comment »
New York blog tip: local ecologist
Posted in Events/exhibitions/etc., Plants elsewhere in NYC, Projects from others, tagged blogs, city, ecology, forestry, New York, urban on 26 October 2012| Leave a Comment »
Photo courtesy of local ecologist.
local ecologist is a super-knowledgable urban ecology blog in New York, with whom Urban Plant Research has long been exchanging ideas and comments, and whom we are long overdue in recommending. From lovely photos and accurate IDs of local fruits and foliage (as in the picture above, of hawthorn) to investigations of urban space and architecture, local ecologist reports on a wide variety of subjects and is packed with in-depth information.
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LaGuardia Airport, NY: Bathroom plant research
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, tagged airport, bathroom, New York on 16 November 2011| Leave a Comment »
Our roving plant reporter Phoebe Kuo, aka my sister, found a birthday bouquet yesterday while traveling through LaGuardia Airport in New York City late at night. Although she had just endured a late evening flight following a long day of work, our birthday girl was on the alert for urban plants and snagged this cell phone shot of the perfect pretzel pairing. Is Auntie Anne’s pretzels, a LaGuardia snack mainstay, offering urban plants in Big Gulp-sized cups? If so, you heard it here first.
Manhattan: “Low line” underground park proposed
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, Projects from others, tagged architecture, city, experimental, low line, manhattan, New York, park, raadstudio, subway, trolley, urban plants on 21 September 2011| 4 Comments »
And now for something completely different… simply by proposing a new park, three New York entrepreneurs have made waves among Manhattanites, urban planners and architecture nerds. The reason: their want to put the park completely underground, in a defunct trolley station on the Lower East Side, which looks like this:
Brooklyn: Trees wearing sweaters
Posted in Brooklyn plants, Questions & discussion, tagged Brooklyn, New York, street art, street trees, sweater, tree on 10 May 2010| 3 Comments »
The weather has been very mercurial lately, swinging from warm summery days for short sleeves to gusty days like today when I go back inside to get my sweater. The weather is whipping the trees around too and I bet some of them would be happy to have sweaters too, like these trees I saw in Brooklyn back in January.
Our residency at Open Source has begun!
Posted in Berlin plants, Brooklyn plants, Events/exhibitions/etc., tagged artists, Brooklyn, exhibition, installation, New York, Open Source Gallery, residency on 19 August 2009| 2 Comments »
Urban Plant Research’s first New York exhibition and residency began last Saturday at Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn! It kicked off with an opening party filled with friends, neighbors, fellow artists and plant lovers, pizza and beer.
Brooklyn: Urban Plant Videos!
Posted in Brooklyn plants, tagged Brooklyn, cities, New York, still life, subway, video on 21 July 2009| 2 Comments »
On July 12, in the high noon sun, I caught sight of a plant living down below the street, underneath the subway grates at 9th Street and 6th Avenue.
Brooklyn: Climbing plants (in and out of control)
Posted in Brooklyn plants, tagged Brooklyn, cities, ivy, New York on 15 July 2009| Leave a Comment »
With the ivy-graffiti still on my mind, I’d like to share some more amazing instances of climbing plants I’ve discovered in Park Slope. This photograph that I took a little while ago, with its lush, dark ivy, reminds me of Leslie’s photograph of Juncker’s Hotel Garni, minus the beautiful way the ivy flows into windowboxes.