A list of environmental winners and losers in New York.

My favorite “Green Apple” is the Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn:

Established by the non-profit organization Added Value with Parks Department cooperation, is one of just a handful of urban farms throughout the city. And 2008 was perhaps its best year ever.  The farm is located in Coffey Park, on a 2.75 acre plot that was once a concrete ball field.  One hundred and thirty-five students from across the borough and a band of neighborhood residents are the farm’s dedicated workforce.  They are growing basil, beans, beets, carrots, chard, Chinese cabbage, collard greens„ cucumber, kale, lettuce, mint, oregano, radicchio, sage, spinach, squash, thyme, and zucchini. And they close the food loop by accepting food waste from local families and restaurants, which they turn into compost.  The farm’s food is sold at Added Value’s weekly farmers’ markets and to local restaurants. You won’t find anything fresher.

My, um, “favorite” “Bad Apple” is the new Yankee stadium:

For residents of the Bronx who live in the neighborhoods surrounding the new stadium, the new construction has come at a high price.  The new stadium was not built on the site of the original ball park, but across the street, on what had since 1899 been Macombs Dam Park.  Thus, twenty-two acres of parkland have been one of the casualties of the new stadium’s construction.  The destruction of Macombs Dam Park, along with a nearly 4 acre portion of John Mullaly Park, has deprived local residents of critical green oases in their community.  Baseball fields, basketball, handball and tennis courts, a soccer field and a running track, and hundreds of mature trees have all fallen to construction bulldozers.  To make matters worse, replacement park improvements, which the City said would be nearly finished by now, have been slow in coming, despite the vigilance of advocates like New Yorkers for Parks.