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a farm. in manhattan sigh
by fnord77 3mo ago
a farm. in manhattan
sigh
- margalabargala 3mo agoWhy do you think "sheep meadow" in Central Park is called that? Do you think Manhattan has always been skyscrapers?
- fnord77 2mo agoyou misinterpreted me
- margalabargala 2mo agoAll I can do is the best interpretation of what you wrote. I fear you doom yourself to misinterpretation by failing to properly or correctly describe your thought. Why comment?
- quickthrowman 3mo agoI don’t understand. Do you think the Dutch came to Manhattan in the 1620s and found it fully built out with streets and skyscrapers?
- pimlottc 2mo agoMaybe they were just wistful? Hard to know with such a short comment.
- fnord77 2mo agoWow, people are completely misinterpreting my comment. I'm lamenting the loss of farms in manhattan.
- quickthrowman 2mo agoKinda hard to farm on land when it’s worth $1000-3000 a square foot like land is in Manhattan. I’m not even sure a vertically integrated coca plantation/cocaine refinery would be profitable with those property taxes and your gross margins would be 90%. At least there’s Central Park, that’s several hundreds of billions of dollars of real estate set aside for public use.
- donohoe 3mo agoThere are still farms in Manhattan and other parts of NYC. From the few I know off-hand: - The Farm at the Javits Center (Hudson Yards) is a working rooftop farm, greenhouse, and has an orchard. - On Randall’s Island there is a farm with raised beds, greenhouses, rice paddies, and also an orchard. - Battery Urban Farm (Lower Manhattan) - not sure of this counts but its an operating educational farm that grows produce. There are others.
- JoeAltmaier 3mo ago"The Bronx" was "The Bronks", a farm owned by a Dutch family and a popular picnic destination before it was subdivided and built over.