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~ CM

For their photos and more about their experience read here: http://www.businessinsider.com/eataly-beer-garden-2011-6?op=1#ixzz1hfVG84z4

Birreria

From the Birreria website:

Eataly’s BIRRERIA is a rooftop restaurant and brewery that offers the highest quality beer and food under the stars and skyline. In collaboration with Dogfish Head, Baladin and Del Borgo, we are brewing unfiltered,unpasteurized and naturally carbonated Cask Ales just 30 feet from where you sit, eat and drink. Each is served through traditional hand pumps, at the perfect temperature, so you can enjoy our beers in the most natural and traditional way. The menu conjures the family style feasts of an Italy influenced by Austria and Germany. Its dishes are unlike anything served at Eataly’s five restaurants with a focus on hearty fare that feels convivial and comforting: deeply flavorful mushroom entrees, pork shoulder paired with housemade pickled vegetables and sauerkraut, housemade sausages and grilled meats.

 

There is something quite appealing about a rooftop microbrewery and beer garden.  Bottoms up!  ~ CM

In twelve years, Mark Elijah Rosenberg has transformed Rooftop Films from a party he threw on his East Village roof with a sheet and a projector to a summer long short film festival with screenings at unique locations all over the five boroughs. The organization has forged collaborations with more than 30 film festivals, schools, and social service organizations throughout New York’s five boroughs and across the country.

 

Can you tell the story of the first Rooftop screening? I was a young filmmaker in 1997 who had made some short films which had screened at a couple of festivals, and I’d seen some great films by my friends and others, but I wanted more people to see this work. At the same time, I was always hanging out on my rooftop on 14th St. and 1st Ave., and it seemed like a great place to have a film festival. I bought a used 16mm film projector, stapled a sheet to the wall, borrowed some chairs from a furniture company, invited my friends, tied the building’s door open, and magically some 300 people showed up to see films they’d never heard of. The chairs put little dents in the tar paper roof, and even though the super patched them in 10 minutes with a $12 bucket of tar, my landlord used that as an excuse to give me the boot. But the event had worked so well, I decided to do it again next year, out in Brooklyn, where my friends Dan Nuxoll and Joshua Breitbart had set up a loft.

 

And this has to be my favorite since the ‘romance’ of rooftops has always been what has attracted me…

I imagine you use a lot of locations that generally remain untouched most of the time. What’s been the strangest thing you’ve found while doing a screening? I think the most amazing thing that’s been found at Rooftop Films screenings is love. At our events, you watch a movie with hundreds of strangers, but it’s not like a typical movie-going experience, where you sit in a black room with strangers for an hour and a half, then get up and leave; nor is it like going to a bar, where mostly you hang out with your friends and talk about stuff external to the bar. There’s entertainment, and socializing, and a surprising number of people I know have met at Rooftop and eventually fallen in love. It’s also an amazing place to take a date, because even with all those people around, up on the roof or in some secret space, you do feel secluded, and special. Our upcoming screening of Romantic Short Films, “Looking for Love,” on Saturday, August 30 at The Yard will take that romance to a new level, as we’ll be accepting Personal Ads, Missed Connections, and general Romantic Notes on our website, playing them on screen before the show and at intermission, giving away free wine, showing romantic films in a romantic setting, and helping people to find love!

 

We both grew up in New York City. Rooftops here have always been more of a haven. Growing up on my block of buildings, the roof was the easiest way to escape the eyes of our parents and the other adults hanging around. Did you spend a lot of time on roofs as a kid? Do you think as adults they provide us the same sort of escape? I did spend a lot of time on New York City rooftops as a kid, and was basically still a kid when I started Rooftop Films (just a month out of college, in 1997). I think there’s something more significant than just escaping and doing illicit acts which plays into the thrill of visiting NYC rooftops, though that is part of the allure, whether you’re a teenager messing around or an adult visiting one of our (fully legal) events. I think the most crucial aspect of it is that you gain a new perspective, one that is both secret and exposed. To follow the metaphor of sneaking around your parents’ gaze, at Rooftop Films, we’re not necessarily showing you things you shouldn’t see, but rather finding a unique and new way to show you things you should see, but wouldn’t unless you came to Rooftop. You can come to Rooftop Films and enjoy amazing, original movies in a whole new way.

 

If you could change one thing about New York, what would it be? … I think we should open up more rooftops, parks and streets for events of all kinds. 

enjoy … CM

Up on the Roof: New York’s Hidden Skyline Spaces [Hardcover]

Alex MacLean (Author)

Standing high on a rooftop, cocooned in your own little world … the noise and hustle of the streets falls away while time is suspended.  Night falls and the glow of a city that never sleeps is all that lights your secret garden oasis. Life is magical, anything seems possible and fairy tales do come true…  ~CM

I had to begin this series with this most classic of landmark Fifth Avenue gardens.

If you haven’t heard of Rockefeller Center … you probably haven’t heard of New York.  And yet how many people who flock to the center have no idea that two of the first landscaped rooftop gardens in New York are hidden up above the Channel Gardens.  Perched across from Saks Fifth Ave, these iconic twin gardens are the original ‘green roofs’ of New York.

Created over 75 years ago by developer John R. Todd and architect Raymond Hood, the ‘hanging gardens’ atop the British Empire building and the Maison Française were created as a ‘visual treat’ for the thousands of workers in the Rockefeller Center and surrounding offices.

Today this is a fantastic location for a romantic New York City rooftop wedding.  Both the garden and loft at 620 Fifth Avenue (the British Empire Building) are available for special events.

© CM Glover 2009

“There is nothing like the landmark garden in Rockefeller Center. There are views of Fifth Avenue and St. Patrick’s Cathedral from the garden. The interior loft space looks directly over Rockefeller Center. Every event looks different in the clean, white loft space. Every wedding is special here.”

~ Brook Harkavy Hernandez, Director of Special Events

Available year round, the garden and loft can accommodate both the ceremony and up to 100 for a seated dinner with dancing in the same room. While they automatically tent the patio space in the garden; during inclement or cold weather, the ceremony, reception and dinner may all be held inside.  Brides are welcome to bring outside caterers to work in the space, however the company offers special packages in conjunction with their recommended vendors.

To hold your dream wedding in this one of a kind location, expect to pay on the high end of venue fees.

© CM Glover 2009

Call 212.593.9499 or email events@topoftherocknyc.com if you are interested in booking your Fifth Avenue rooftop wedding.

© CM Glover 2009

For more images go to topoftherocknyc.com.

From TopOfTheRockNYC.com

Just a thought – if you could get them to do a wedding on a rooftop in NYC you’d have a great reception!!

I happen to love the old movie Bell, Book & Candle, so imagine my delight when I ran across the site of the ‘green’ restaurant, Bell, Book & Candle at 141 W. 10th St in New York.  ’Dedicated to responsible procurement’,  60% of their organically grown produce comes from their own rooftop aeroponic system.

Menus at BBC are seasonally created around the concept of local, organic, sustainable and overall responsible procurement, and are heavily influenced by what’s flourishing on the aeroponic roof-top tower garden.  Multiple menu items reference their ‘rooftop herbs’ and the BBC Burger lists one of the ingredients as a “rooftop pickle”.  That one made me smile.

Check out the bottom of any menu page for a partial list of vegetables and herbs grown on the rooftop.

 

 

SOME ITEMS WE PRODUCE FROM OUR AEROPONIC ROOF TOP GARDEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR LISTED BELOW:

Sage, Chive, Chervil, Cilantro, Dill, Genovese Basil, Opal Basil, Italian and Flat Leaf Parsley, Spearmint, Rosemary, 4 varieties of Nasturtium, Cheddar Cauliflower,  Purple Tomatillo, Tomatillo,  Japanese and Kermit Eggplant,

2 varieties of Arugula,  4 varieties of Cherry Tomato, Great White Tomato, Bibb Lettuce, Red Oak Leaf, Red Romaine, Green Romaine,  Lola Rosa, Frisee, Green Crisp,  Poblano Pepper, Fennel