Village Green Becomes the First LEED Gold New Residential Building Below 59th Street in Manhattan

Village Green Becomes the First LEED Gold New Residential Building Below 59th Street in Manhattan

Lower Manhattan’s ultra-modern Village Green apartment complex was recently awarded LEED Gold status, making it the first new residential development to achieve the certification below 59th Street. The gorgeous green building is a template for sustainable living, acting as a role model for future developments in the city. The Village Green is the first in a series of “Green Collection” residential complexes by Alfa Development.
 

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Harlem Applebee’s Will Be First LEED Gold Restaurant in NYC, Complete With Lush Living Walls

Harlem Applebee’s Will Be First LEED Gold Restaurant in NYC, Complete With Lush Living Walls

NYC’s first-ever LEED Gold restaurant will be opening in December – and somewhat surprisingly, it will be an Applebee’s. Up until now, the American chain eatery hasn’t exactly had a reputation that coincides with being green, healthy or sustainable, but hopefully

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Crystal Green LEED-Designed Luxury Rental Apartments Are Now Available in Midtown Manhattan

Crystal Green LEED-Designed Luxury Rental Apartments Are Now Available in Midtown Manhattan

New Yorkers looking to rent apartments that are just as sustainable as they are high-end have a new building to choose from, Crystal Green in Midtown, Manhattan. Luxury rental company Glenwood launched leasing for the property last month and in addition to opulence, the 25-story Midtown West building also boasts a design that strives for LEED certification.
 

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Long Island’s LEED Platinum Yes We Can Community Center Opens Its Doors!

Long Island’s LEED Platinum Yes We Can Community Center Opens Its Doors!

Earlier this month, North Hempstead unveiled the first LEED Platinum community center in Long Island. The Yes We Can center boasts green features like a solar carport, geothermal heating and cooling, solar panels, and rooftop rainwater collecting bins for

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Empire State Building’s Iconic Colored Lights to Get an LED Makeover!

Empire State Building’s Iconic Colored Lights to Get an LED Makeover!

The Empire State Building’s iconic lights are getting a green makeover! The famous floodlights that change hues to commemorate all of the holidays of the year will soon be powered by energy efficient LED lights. The swap-out is being implemented with the

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The Intercontinental Times Square Becomes the Largest New-Build Hotel to Achieve LEED Certification in the US

The Intercontinental Times Square Becomes the Largest New-Build Hotel to Achieve LEED Certification in the US

The Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square, NYC has barely been open for two years, but it's already making major green headlines. The hotel just received its official LEED certification, making it the nation's largest new-build hotel to achieve LEED status. With 36 floors packed with green features and two roof decks, including one with its own beehive, the Intercontinental is setting the standard for sustainable hotels throughout New York. Click through our photo gallery to see some of the building's best green highlights.
 

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Heineken Brews Up LEED-CI Gold at Its US Headquarters in White Plains NY

Heineken Brews Up LEED-CI Gold at Its US Headquarters in White Plains NY

Heineken has taken green branding to a whole new level at its US corporate headquarters in White Plains, NY. Working with sustainability consultants CodeGreen, MKDA Architects helped renovate the interior of the beer giant's 360 Hamilton Place office, adding new glass walls, flexible work stations, low VOC-emitting finishes and energy and water-efficient appliances. For its gains in conservation and efficiency and overall workspace enhancement, the newly sustainable space was recently awarded LEED-CI Gold by the USGBC.
 

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Columbia’s Manhattanville Campus is First LEED Platinum Neighborhood Plan in NYC

Columbia’s Manhattanville Campus is First LEED Platinum Neighborhood Plan in NYC

Columbia University’s 17-acre Manhattanville campus in West Harlem just announced that it has achieved LEED Platinum certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s standards for neighborhood development. Located just north of Columbia’s Morningside

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The Landmarked Museum of the City of New York Goes Green With a LEED-Seeking Renovation

The Landmarked Museum of the City of New York Goes Green With a LEED-Seeking Renovation

For nine decades, the Museum of the City of New York has honored our city's past and celebrated its future through diverse and transformative exhibits, providing New Yorkers with a catalog of the Big Apple's perpetual evolution. As New York moves toward a more sustainable future, MCNY has not only examined the changes through special exhibits, but the institution has become a part of the changes itself. MCNY's landmarked Colonial Revival building is currently undergoing a $90 million LEED Silver renovation by Ennead Architects to bring the building up to date, helping it to engage visitors for generations to come. The comprehensive modernization and expansion began in 2006 and will be completed in 2015.
 

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Green Map Launches New NYC Energy Map

Green Map Launches New NYC Energy Map

Green Map, the open source system that maps everything eco, is one of our go-to resources for discovering sustainable businesses, local initiatives, and green-living resources. Now the organization has just launched a new map that’s tracking everything energy-related

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The U.N. Headquarters Goes Green With a $1.8 Billion Renovation

The U.N. Headquarters Goes Green With a $1.8 Billion Renovation

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The iconic U.N. Headquarters is in the midst of a $1.8 billion renovation aptly named the “Capital Master Plan.” However, you won’t be seeing any construction on the Turtle Bay area buildings, as the overhaul is mainly focused on internal design. Not only are technology and security being updated with state of the art capabilities, but the Master Plan is also calling for a green cleaning, swapping out old interior designs and habits from the 1950s for new and sustainable features, with the aim of granting the building LEED Silver status.


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Hudson River Brownfield Site Transformed Into Sustainable Long Dock Park

Hudson River Brownfield Site Transformed Into Sustainable Long Dock Park

Like much of New York's waterfront, the Hudson River's edge in Beacon, NY was a critical industrial dock in the 19th century. But now, after decades of being used as a ferry dock, oil terminal, and junkyard, Long Dock Park has been completely transformed from a polluted brownfield site into a sustainably-designed riverfront destination. The Architecture Research Office (ARO) built a new boat pavilion and restored a 150-year-old barn to create an arts and recreation center for Scenic Hudson, both of which are located in a pollution-reducing 15-acre park by landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand.
 

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Liberty Island’s Retail Pavilion is NYC’s Fifth LEED Platinum Building

Liberty Island’s Retail Pavilion is NYC’s Fifth LEED Platinum Building

New York City is now home to five LEED Platinum buildings -- the highest possible certification by the U.S. Green Buildings Council. Designed by Acheson Doyle Partners Architects, the Liberty Island Retail Pavilion has just joined the ranks. The glass-walled pavilion, which is also coincidentally the fifth LEED platinum building in a national park in the country, greets visitors to the Statue of Liberty.
 

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LEED-Seeking Lakeside Project Will Restore 26 Acres of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park

LEED-Seeking Lakeside Project Will Restore 26 Acres of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park

Designed and built by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867, Prospect Park is filled with forests, waterfalls, lawns, and lakes, where residents once had unobstructed access to the waterfront. Then, in 1960, Wollman Rink was built on the eastern shore of Prospect Park's lake, completely obstructing the view Olmsted worked so hard to create. But a new project, aptly named Lakeside, is currently underway that will restore the lake's waterfront to its original beauty while also renovating 26 acres of parkland. The Lakeside project will add three new acres of green space to the park, and it will feature a LEED certified year-round recreational facility built by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.
 

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Avon’s New LEED-Seeking Headquarters Showcase the Company’s Commitment to Sustainability

Avon’s New LEED-Seeking Headquarters Showcase the Company’s Commitment to Sustainability

Most are familiar with Avon for their cosmetics but do you know the story behind company's long history of corporate citizenship? Since its founding in 1886, the company has created the largest social network for women and established programs to empower women economically. It has also contributed to pertinent female issues such as breast cancer and the effort to combat domestic violence. Now, adding an additional pillar to the company's sense of corporate responsibility, the new Avon New York Headquarters paves the way for sustainability as it heads toward LEED Gold certification.
 

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Empire State Building Achieves LEED Gold Certification

Empire State Building Achieves LEED Gold Certification

It’s official — the Empire State Building has been awarded LEED Gold certification. Thanks to a massive green overhaul that took more than two years, the landmark is now the tallest building in the United States to receive LEED certification. The groundbreaking

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LEED Platinum Seeking Battery Park Community Center Will Have a Musical Water Wall

LEED Platinum Seeking Battery Park Community Center Will Have a Musical Water Wall

Battery Park City, already home to some of the greenest apartment and condo buildings in the Big Apple, will soon add another major sustainable building to its portfolio. Set to open this fall, the Digital Water Pavilion in the Battery Park City Community Center by Hanrahan Meyers Architects is a 55,000 square foot structure designed as a "built landscape" that's aiming for LEED Platinum certification. The star of the new center is a 550-foot curved glass wall etched with a digital bar code that can be activated by smartphone wielding visitors to play a specially written composition by composer Michael Schumacher. The design seamlessly incorporates sustainability, music, and our surrounding landscape into an interactive destination.
 

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Brooklyn Children’s Museum Unveils Plans for New Eco-Friendly Rooftop Canopy

Brooklyn Children’s Museum Unveils Plans for New Eco-Friendly Rooftop Canopy

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York City’s first ever LEED certified museum, just keeps getting better. The institution is expanding its space, and they recently unveiled plans for a new transparent rooftop canopy, made out of a heat-resistant ETFE skin

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LEED-Seeking Theater for a New Audience Breaks Ground on Dramatic Black Box Building in Brooklyn

LEED-Seeking Theater for a New Audience Breaks Ground on Dramatic Black Box Building in Brooklyn

Brooklyn’s budding cultural district will soon raise the curtain on a new classic theater. Just Last Friday, construction started on the Theater for a New Audience, a Hugh Hardy designed flexible theater created specifically for the performance of Shakespeare

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Third + Bond is the First Brooklyn Building to Receive LEED Platinum Certification

Third + Bond is the First Brooklyn Building to Receive LEED Platinum Certification

The Gowanus Canal may be a Superfund site, but that hasn’t kept the surrounding neighborhood from having somewhat of a renaissance over the last few years. New apartment buildings, restaurants, and galleries continue to pop up, and just this week, the new

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Ennead Architects Designs New Green Intake Center for NYC Department of Homeless Services

Ennead Architects Designs New Green Intake Center for NYC Department of Homeless Services

Public service buildings in NYC are taking a more environmentally friendly turn. City officials gathered last week to announce the opening of a new green intake center for the homeless, the Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing (PATH) building in The

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Metropolitan Green: Solar Panel Clad Building Brings Bright Pops of Color to Williamsburg

Metropolitan Green: Solar Panel Clad Building Brings Bright Pops of Color to Williamsburg

From Passive Houses and massive rooftop farms to mobile coffee bars and eco-friendly footbridges, Brooklyn is just bursting with amazing green design. Well here's another one we can tack on to the list: Metropolitan Green, a 5-story mixed use building with a shiny blue solar panel facade. Designed by Mark Helder, the 3,400 square foot building has a footprint of only 507 square feet, and the striking facade provides 40 percent of its energy. Aptly named, the stunning green building sits on Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, and it is aiming to achieve LEED Platinum. Hit the jump for a look inside.
 

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New Fordham University Dormitories Obtain LEED Gold With Help From NYSERDA

New Fordham University Dormitories Obtain LEED Gold With Help From NYSERDA

More and more New York colleges are jumping on the green building bandwagon. Last week, Fordham University obtained LEED Gold certification for its recently built Rose Hill Dormitories, supported by $555,000 in NYSERDA incentives. The funding will also allow

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PHOTOS: Inside the Hearst Tower, New York City’s First LEED Gold Skyscraper

PHOTOS: Inside the Hearst Tower, New York City’s First LEED Gold Skyscraper

Sustainably built skyscrapers are a dime a dozen in New York City these days, but not too long ago, that wasn't the case. The city didn't get its first green high rise until 2006, with the completion of the Hearst Tower. Designed by Inhabitat favorite Norman Foster, the striking blue lattice tower has become one of the most recognizable buildings in the city. The green building earned a LEED Gold certification in 2006, making it the first skyscraper in New York to achieve the coveted green building seal. We've long been fans of this thoughtful, interesting building at Inhabitat, so we were thrilled when we were recently invited to take a private tour inside the Hearst Tower -- read on for the details and our exclusive pictures from inside the stunning green high-rise.
 

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Kiss + Cathcart’s The Lee Opens the Door for Green Supportive Housing in the Lower East Side

Kiss + Cathcart’s The Lee Opens the Door for Green Supportive Housing in the Lower East Side

New York City based architecture firm Kiss + Cathcart’s has officially opened The Lee, a LEED Silver supportive housing tower in the Lower East Side. The opening of the building, attended by city officials, neighborhood representatives, and members of the

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