In January 2003, The New York City Economic Development Corporation hired Michael Singer as a part of a design team lead by Margie Ruddick Landscape (now WRT Philadelphia) to provide planning, streetscape and landscape design for the public spaces in Queens Plaza near the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City, New York. At the heart of the Queens Plaza design is a stormwater collection, filtration, and irrigation system that supports a massive re-growth of vegetation from within the tangled urban core of over 14 lanes of traffic, 2 elevated subway lines, 2 bridges, and a multitude of subways and utilities. Public art will be designed to enhance the functional elements needed at the site, working with proposed water systems, wind abatement, and sound attenuation, as well as creating an armature for extensive re-vegetation of this dense urban corridor.

This project is currently in design development.

Artist: Michael Singer
Landscape Architecture and Planning: Margie Ruddick, Alessandra Galletti, and Hank Bishop at WRT, Jason Bregman (working at Margie Ruddick Landscape)
Project Management, Design, and Renderings: Jason Bregman (working at Margie Ruddick Landscape and with Michael Singer Studio)
Architecture and Planning: Marpillero Pollak Architects, Michael Sorkin Studio
NYC DEP: Penny Lee and Kate Dunham
NYC EDC: Marylin Lee
Engineering: Langan Engineering

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