Brooklyn Navy Yard to Go Green on Top
More than two centuries old and the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s salad days are just beginning. The flourishing industrial park will soon be getting a 45,000-square-foot open-air, rooftop farm, according to the New York Post.
The Long Island City-based organic farm operation, Brooklyn Grange, is making good on its name (chosen before a last-minute change moved the farm’s first location from Brooklyn to Queens) and opening its first Brooklyn veggie plot on the roof of a Navy Yard building near Flushing Avenue and Cumberland Street.
The commercial farm plans to supply grocers, restaurants, fellow Navy Yard businesses and local shoppers with organic produce during its growing season, which lasts from about March to November, according to Brooklyn Grange managing partner Gwen Schantz.