Green roofs are not limited to big spaces. In 2013, the Empire State Building commissioned 826 square metres of Low and Bonar’s panels for the narrow roof space on its 21st, 25th and 30th floors.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- One of the largest green roofs in the city was unveiled Thursday – all 30,000 square feet of it. As CBS2's Cindy Hsu reported, it now looks like a resort – but it was a ...

Out of more than 1 million buildings in New York City, they could identify only 736 with green roofs, less than 0.1% of the total, although they noted there could be others they hadn't been able ...

The mission of the New York State Green Building Conference is to promote, educate, and support green building design, construction, and processes. Conference participants represent many industries ...

As a result, a New York City block feels, on average, almost 10 degrees warmer than a rural area nearby. Green roofs replace some of that reflective concrete.

The mandate places an unfair financial burden of at least $15,000 to $20,000 on those who are building and buying new homes, they say, and it especially hurts those putting additions on their homes.

Empire State Building management shrugged off the uproar over lighting the Big Apple landmark in the colors of the Philadelphia Eagles — and will do it again if the team wins the Super Bowl.

A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 30, 2022, Section MB, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: The Storm Didn’t Stop Waterfront Developers.