Believe It: Fake Grass For Cadman Plaza
When we first posted last April about the plan to put astroturf down in Cadman Plaza, most commenters weren’t too happy about the idea. Now that the turf is being rolled out, it seems like a good time to revisit the topic. What it really comes down to is what the alternatives are: Defenders of…
When we first posted last April about the plan to put astroturf down in Cadman Plaza, most commenters weren’t too happy about the idea. Now that the turf is being rolled out, it seems like a good time to revisit the topic. What it really comes down to is what the alternatives are: Defenders of the plan say its fake grass or a dust bowl while critics argue that it would just take a litte time and money to have a real lawn. Obviously we’d rather see real grass there but we don’t have any particular insight into the debate. But how hard can it really be to grow grass if there is sufficient resources and will?
Cadman Plaza Astroturf [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
Fake Plastic Grass: It Wears the CPCC Out [Brownstoner]
Photo by Two Tones
It’s unbelievable how little info there is out here for fake grass. SYNLawn is amazing grass, not a compromise at all, just as good as real. You are all unfamiliar with it, but you should just go see it- you have a distributor in your area and it has been installed on roof top gardens in Manhattan, public schools in New York-not the football field grass, but real synthetic landscape grass- the WYNN Hotel in Las Vegas has 5.5+ acres of it! We install it on the front and back yards of $20 Million dollar houses here in Los Angeles and all around the country
Hey 8:45 AM, local governments all over have been figuring out how to maintain parks without resorting to plastic ground cover for a very long time. It’s hardly a snobbish concept. Why don’t you go sip a Slurpee at your local Walmart and come up with something intelligent to add to the conversation?
Hey, 11:12 PM…..why don’t you run for Mayor of NYC. After all, you seem to have it all figured out! Take a sip of your latte and bitch on someone else’s blog.
In New York in 2006, if a politician isn’t able to develop a plan and muster the resources to seed and maintain real grass in a public plaza, he or she should not be in government.
Thank the Lord this place is being renovated.
Unless there’s some “Cadman Park Conservancy” out there, the park is administered by the budget-strapped Parks Department.
The fake grass (much improved from the old Astroturf of the late 1960’s/early 1970’s) is very good for the types of heavy, almost daily multiple uses the Cadman Plaza park will get.
Including the walks of defendants and/or their attorneys from the diner across the street to the courthouse.
Just got to keep the TV trucks off of it when there’s a major case at Brooklyn Federal Court – which in its new location is closer to Tillary Street — where the trucks park now.
Fake grass comes in many different guises and when you are talking about the quality stuff now available, it no longer should lead to the injuries and problems of Turf of old. Additionally it should drain fairly well, which should help with the problem of dog poo/pee (not that it should allowed) – that being said based soley on the ridiculously bright green shade in this picture, I fear that the parks department went with the cheap stuff (better quality generally looks more natural)
Fake turf has been shown to cause much more harmful sports injuries than grass or just plain dirt. Why not have a (natural) surface that everyone can enjoy, rather than just a few?
I hope dogs are allowed and people keep their kids off it. And parents respect that.
“I would hope signs would go up to keep the dogs off and the dog owners will respect that.”
(:} c’mon, we’re talking bklyn, right. dog poop is king on these streets.