The javits center has roof tours and a live cam.
Npr javits center green roof.
Each year nearly 40 000 companies set up shop inside the 840 000 square feet of convention space and bring in nearly 2.
The business of the jacob javits center in new york city is business.
Then we imagined what the city could be like if all of its roof space was green.
Home to 29 bird species five bat species and thousands of honeybees the green roof has become a sanctuary for area wildlife while helping to reduce energy consumption throughout the convention center on manhattan s west side.
Then npr imagines what a city full of green roofs could be like.
The javits center green roof installation was officially completed in october 2014 and measures 297 000 sf which is the second largest green roof on a single free standing building in the u s.
Home to 26 bird species five bat species and thousands of honeybees the javits center green roof has become a sanctuary for wildlife all while helping to reduce energy consumption throughout the convention center on manhattan s west side.
From april to october the javits center offers free tours of its 6 75 acre green roof one of the largest of its kind in the united states.
We took a field trip to the largest green roof in new york city.
Npr visits the javits roof top to find out how it s improved the neighborhood and how it s saved the company three million dollars.
But the roof hasn t always been green.
Comprised of sedum and home to 29 bird species five bat species and thousands of honeybees the green roof has become a sanctuary for area wildlife while helping to reduce energy consumption throughout the convention center on manhattan s west side.
The largest at ford motor company s river rouge plant which reached the milestone of its tenth anniversary in 2013 is also a xeroflor installation.
Before 2014 it was totally barren.
Eagle street rooftop farm in brooklyn.
Javits center s green roof tours register for a tour of the javits center s 6 75 acre green roof one of the largest of its kind in the united states.