Brooklyn Botanic Garden protests shadow-casting skyscraper with “Fight for Sunlight” exhibition

2019-08-01T16:08:00-04:00

A proposed mixed-use development slated for a site beside the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) in New York City has BBG officials worried that the shadows created by the project’s twin 39-story towers will deprive the garden’s specimens of vital sunlight.

Gothamist reports that the brewing public battle between BBG and developers Continuum Company and Lincoln Equities reached a new level this week, as BBG debuted its Fight for Sunlight exhibition, a graphics-heavy information campaign designed to convey the magnitude of the damage that could be caused to the institution’s plants were the project to come into being. According to BBG, the garden is “one of the only places in New York City where you can see such a diverse collection of rare plants in bloom year-round.”

View of the five-building greenhouse cluster designed by Davis, Brody and Associates. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Elisa.rolle.

The 1.4 million-square-foot development is currently undergoing environmental review, accor...

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden protests shadow-casting skyscraper with “Fight for Sunlight” exhibition