Photo by Carol from East 5th Street
ICYMI, this new hotel is on Cooper Square.
This spring, the NYC Department of Transportation, the Horticultural Society of New York (The Hort!) and Rutgers University announced the Pollinator Port Project to create habitats for at-risk native bee populations in select NYC DOT public plazas and Open Streets.
Per the city:
As part of the project, 'bee hotels' and 'bee bunkers' will be installed, and vegetation will be planted to provide nourishment for bees and other pollinators. According to the United Nations' Environment Programme, bees are essential for the planet and are a crucial part of the biodiversity needed to sustain life. Bees have fewer habitats in urban areas and often have long distances between green spaces in cities. The installations announced today will provide connections between other green spaces across the city and will attract tickle bees, a small, native bee species that rarely sting.
4 comments:
Be Still My Heart
Fantastic idea. Stuytown has one of these too and I would love to see more of them all over the city. This is the kind of very low taxpayer investment that is both beneficial for the environment and adds to the city's character and soul. My only fear is that people will deface them or otherwise try to steal/use them for their own gain, so I hope they are placed in protected enough areas.
It's true! This is a thoughtful and welcomed initiative. Well played.
Great idea, but they should be placed away from high (human) traffic areas and where they can't be easily vandalized—after all, is this a genuine environmental effort, or just a PR stunt?
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