New York Rooftop Garden Given Green Light

The Brooklyn Grange Farm — which was given a stop order by the city of New York to halt work on a 40,000-square-foot garden on the roof of the Standard Motor Products building — has received the permits needed to continue constructing the city’s largest rooftop garden. The group was stopped from spreading 600 tons of soil on top of the building because architectural permits were not secured to confirm that the building could hold the weight of a rooftop farm. (NY Daily News). Read more.