Project Description: Kingsland Wildflowers was conceived of, designed, and installed by Alive Structures, with additional consultating by Larry Weaner Associates. It began in 2016 with a grant from The Greenpoint Community Environmental Grant (GCEF) and a collaboration with Broadway Stages who contibuted matching funds to make the green roof on their building at 520 Kingsland Avenue a community environmental center. Working with New York City Audubon and Newtown Creek Alliance, Kingsland Wildflowers has hosted thousands of visitors, including school classes, teachers, volunteers, politicians, real estate developers, biologists, and artists and has been a meeting place for all issues environmental in North Brooklyn. Kingsland Wildflowers consists of 25,000 Square Feet of green roof, of which Fifty percent is wildflower meadow using native grasses and wildflowers, and the other Fifty is sedum carpet. There are five roofs, three of which are accessible to the public. The accessible wildflower roofs consist of 2” of drainage and 6” of engineered soil medium creating a deep and productive substrate. Kingsland Widlflowers is now maintained by Alive Structures, Newtown Creek Alliance, and by the generosity of Broadway Stages, allowing us to invite the public in and create meaningful and diverse events for New Yorkers.
