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Navy Yard Rooftop Farm — Brooklyn Grange, New York City

Rows of vegetables on a Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm with two smokestacks, the Manhattan Bridge and the Lower Manhattan skyline in the distance
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Brooklyn Grange

SeenMar 2025

Brooklyn Grange · Building 3, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York City · 2012

Photo: Paulina Fein / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), as published on Street Art Utopia. The photo’s source does not say which Brooklyn Grange roof it shows.

Brooklyn Grange built its second rooftop farm in 2012 on Building 3 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, after its first farm in Long Island City. Vassar describes the 11-story building’s 65,000-square-foot roof, where vegetables grow from May to November. Source Source Source Checked

Seen March 2025: Living Architecture Monitor’s Spring 2025 issue describes the 1.5-acre Brooklyn Navy Yard farm as one of Brooklyn Grange’s two operating rooftop farms. Source Reported

💡 4 things to know

  1. A city start-up grant
    The LIC Post reported a $592,730 Department of Environmental Protection start-up grant, matched by $310,000 each from the Navy Yard and Brooklyn Grange. Source Reported
  2. Seedlings from Queens
    About 10,000 seedlings from the company’s first rooftop farm in Long Island City were to be replanted at the Navy Yard. Source Reported
  3. Salad above the river
    Vassar described kale, tomatoes, zucchini, arugula and beets growing on the roof from May through November, with salad greens as the main crop. Source Reported
  4. Still farming
    In 2025 the company ran two rooftop farms, at the Navy Yard and in Sunset Park; its first farm in Queens is now run by the Boys and Girls Club. Source Reported

📍 Where it is

On the roof of Building 3 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, near Flushing Avenue and Cumberland Street, Brooklyn; the company’s office address is 63 Flushing Ave, Building 3. Source Source Source Checked

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 201213 Mar

    Navy Yard farm announced

  2. 20131 Aug

    Village Voice visits the farm

  3. 202330 Sep

    Garden Conservancy rooftop tour scheduled

  4. 2025Mar

    Reported among two operating farms

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✅ The facts

Operator
Brooklyn Grange Source Source Checked
Building
Building 3, Brooklyn Navy Yard Source Source Checked
Size
About 1.5 acres on a 65,000 sq ft roof; 2012 reports gave the planted farm as 45,000 sq ft Source Source Source Conflicting
Funding
$592,730 NYC DEP grant plus matching funds Source Reported

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