The Green Gap

The Green Gap offers a solution to connect the residents: to the city, to the site, and to each other. In a food desert, the project provides retail food options and individual involvement in food production. The mixed-use complex contains a network of green spaces, urban farming opportunities, and a farmers market. With a master plan that continues the growing network of green spaces along the East River waterfront, the Green Gap development will also contain gardens in the educational and recreational gathering spaces. A landscaped walkway along the water will connect southern sites to the existing park north of the Queensboro Bridge, and the project reimagines the space under the bridge as a community asset and a future location for a playground and farmers market. The first phase will introduce a visual language of an open community level at the elevation of the Queensboro Bridge, which future phasing can continue in order to foster an identity for the site. This level provides views of the city as well and a place for neighbors to socialize while contributing to the community garden