Glassy PLG Tower Bad News for Birds, Says Expert
Scores of migrating birds would smash into the glassy 23-story tower planned in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, on Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenues, creating a mess on the crowded sidewalks below, said Prospect Park Audubon Center senior naturalist Gabriel Willow. He said adjacent Prospect Park, at 585 acres, is a popular resting place for birds along the…
Scores of migrating birds would smash into the glassy 23-story tower planned in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, on Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenues, creating a mess on the crowded sidewalks below, said Prospect Park Audubon Center senior naturalist Gabriel Willow. He said adjacent Prospect Park, at 585 acres, is a popular resting place for birds along the Atlantic Flyway, and added that glass towers in Manhattan near smaller, less popular parks have been the death of hundreds of birds a year. “You’ll just find the ground littered with birds,” he said. Tom Gilman of Gilman Architects didn’t respond when asked if his design took migrating birds into consideration (the flock was added to the rendering). Meanwhile, developer Henry Herbst said he’s been busy polling the community about their preference for the ground floor retail compenent—so far, they’re leaning toward a bank and organic market, even though the short block already has two non-organic markets. Herbst said, “They claim there’s no organic foods in the area,” which is basically true. Cage-free hens, anyone?
Wings Meet Deadly Glass [NY Times]
Form Follows Feathers: Bird-Friendly Architecture [Architectural Record]
Lefferts Gardens Gets a Few New Arrivals [Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
Next to this development, a hole in the ground looks pretty good.
Yeah why have more housing in NYC when we can have holes in the ground where developments were once supposed to be built and which the developers can’t sell to recoup their costs so they sit there neglected eyesores. Good strategy everybody.
One wonders why “12:30 PM” wastes their time on Brownstoner given their evident distaste for brownstones.
Perhaps they would have more fun at WhineAboutEverything.com.
My own whine is now over.
You’re right 12:38. Let’s open Brooklyn up to just any development, no matter how hideous and ugly it is.
I thought the Jetson’s apartment was out of this world.
Seriously. Besides who gets to be the king of taste in NYC. Everybody wants to be the authority on taste… glass is generic, no brownstones are generic… New York City has become as bad as the suburbs, where everyone wants all the houses to line up neatly with little variation (five shades of taupe to choose from!!!) and if you try to do something “out of character” the whole neighborhood association swoops down on you.
Gotcha 12:01 sucks. it’s a lose/ lose for all.
hopefully there’s an invention that addresses the issue before the sky pad apts from the Jetson’s appear.
Typing too fast and thinking too slowly.
oops…meant imagination. typing too fast. apologies.