Using the city’s online rain garden mapper tool, I found a few potential sites near my apartment and took my bike out one morning to check them out. The too lists all planned, under construction and completed sites, so I visited a variety to see what they looked like:
Stop 1
Site 1
Bus stop
Very busy
Lots of trash
Lots of entry points (not traditional ran garden/linked to sewer)
Couple of trees
intersection
Stop 2
Site 2
Outside of coffee shop
New development
Across street from empty lot and weeds
1 tree
Feels bare
Shaded in morning
Sewer at intersection
Site 3
Large tree, 2 bushes
Intersection less busy
Storm drain
By citibike
Construction across street
Some trash
Site 4
2 bushes, grass, flowers
Tree
Some trash, paint
Petrified animal
By apartment + construction
Wide street
Someone added plant next to it?
Sewer down the street?
Stop 3
Site 5
Dekalb + Walworth
Under construction
Fences, dirt, need to plant
Some sand bags
By parking lot
Sewer at other end of street corner
Busy street
Trash lump nearby
Stop 4
Site 6
Overgrown
By bike lane
Saw someone come buy and pick up trash
Between fulton + atlantic
Lots of traffic + sirens
Flowers
Some trash
Broken fence
New apartments
By job training site
Site 7
Church garden? On map looks like rain garden but I can’t find it
Behind a fence
Lots of flowers
Site 8
Atlantic + clinton
Bushes, trash
By construction
Across from verizon
Busy
Near other trees
Sewer at corner
By clinton washington C stop
I also found some sites marked for construction:
