During Veteran’s Day we stumbled on the new Hunter’s Point coastal walk … one of many new and improved ‘coastlines’ of Queens. There are others around Manhattan and Brooklyn – see here: (https://ny.curbed.com/2018/8/9/17667488/new-york-domino-park-hunters-point-south-photo-essay.) When I first came to NYC in 1989 it seemed liked so much of this land was used for tossing trash, or vacant and ignored. It’s so great to see it now is used as recreation area and more saliently, landscaped in a way that’s good for promoting ‘run off’ to keep city toxins out of the soil. I love how the grasses here were planting to facilitate this – while at the same time avoiding land erosion. Best of all it seems to last year round (colors looking good in the fall, and perhaps even staying around for the winter).
