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Article: Bronx scrap yard to sprout green wall; Hunts Point gets a vertical garden to improve view and soak up runoff.(Neighborhood Journal)
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- Crain's New York Business
- Article date:
- August 25, 2008
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Trees may grow in Brooklyn, but the Bronx will soon have something even greener and definitely more modern--a vertical garden that will soar 20 feet into the air and cover 9,000 square feet. The unusual design, in the Hunts Point section of the borough, is intended to obscure a fence that surrounds a scrap yard and recycling plant occupying an entire city block.
Called a "green wall,'' the base of the fence will be planted with "hardy flowering vines,'' according to Miquela Craytor, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, the community organization that will maintain the green wall.
Sims Metal Management, a recycling company, is funding the ...