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AGENCY TESTIMONY
Types and extent of green infrastructure in New York City
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Deputy Commissioner Angela Licata outlines the various types of green infrastructure implemented in New York City, including rain gardens, green medians, porous pavement, and infiltration basins. The city has installed over 16,000 green infrastructure assets, with 7,000 being rain gardens.
- More than 250 public parks, playgrounds, and NYCHA properties have been retrofitted with green infrastructure.
- 54 green community schoolyards have been delivered through a public-private partnership with the Trust for Public Land.
- A map of right-of-way green infrastructure assets is included in the testimony.
Angela Licata
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Transitioning to rain gardens, green medians, and porous pavement, we can recognize that green infrastructure comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, including curbside rain gardens, greened medians with underground storm water retention, porous pavements, and infiltration basins.
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Each of these installations or assets allows water to flow in and then see through layers of engineered soil and stone into the ground underneath.
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We have now installed more than 16,000 green infrastructure assets in the public right of way around the city, and the majority of these, about 7,000, are rain gardens.
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We are building more than just the rain gardens you see on the sidewalk and porous pavements in the streets.
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We have also retrofitted over two fifty public parks, playgrounds, and NYCHA properties with infrastructure, and we have over 100 additional properties in planning and design.
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This includes projects funded through our public private partnership with the Trust for Public Land, which has delivered 54 green community schoolyards.
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Information about various types of green infrastructure and a map of the right of way assets around the city are included at the end of this testimony.