# PhMayor Bloomberg's eco-friendly 'roofscaping' in NY - Photos

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**Created:** [May 5, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phmayor-bloombergs-eco-friendly-roofscaping-in-ny-photos/620997 "2012-05-05T15:49:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phmayor-bloombergs-eco-friendly-roofscaping-in-ny-photos/620997/1 "2012-05-05T15:49:33Z")

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**Disregard the Ph before Mayor** in the thread title. I didn’t backspace far enough. :smack:

The Mayors eco-friendly ‘roofscaping’ seems to have dramatically changed NY’s high rise roofs.

It does seem like a great idea. My only question is what the added moisture (from the soil and plants) and load weight is doing to those roofs? Hopefully that’s all been studied before moving forward with this project.

Some amazing photos. I’d love to visit some of those rooftop gardens & parks.

> **[New York's secret skyline: Amazing aerial shots give rare 
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> Since Mayor Bloomberg's eco-friendly 'roofscaping' initiatives, the tops of dozens of the city's buildings have been transformed into amazing outdoor living spaces and models for green-city living.

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phmayor-bloombergs-eco-friendly-roofscaping-in-ny-photos/620997/2 "2012-05-05T15:56:06Z")

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My favorite photo is the one acre urban rooftop farm in Queens. The results are stunning. That’s a lot of food for some lucky people.

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phmayor-bloombergs-eco-friendly-roofscaping-in-ny-photos/620997/3 "2012-05-05T17:21:13Z")

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Surprising that the didn’t include the [roof](http://www.tourismnewsinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Roof-Garden-Rockefeller-Center-in-New-York.jpg) [gardens](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Rockefeller_Center_Rooftop_Gardens_2_by_David_Shankbone.JPG/220px-Rockefeller_Center_Rooftop_Gardens_2_by_David_Shankbone.JPG) at [Rockefeller](http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/rockefeller_center/rockefeller_center1.jpg) [Plaza](http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/images/secretgarden.jpg), which predate Bloomberg’s initiative by decades.