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US (NY): Rooftop farm delights seniors while feeding hundreds

For 40 years, the rooftop of the Hargrave House has been closed to tenants, its views of Central Park and the neighborhood's mosaic of buildings unappreciated by the low- to middle-income seniors who live there.

But an infusion of city funding help usher in a new purpose for the roof at West 71st Street and Columbus Avenue: a rooftop farm that recently yielded a bounty of vegetables.

A hydroponic farming system now sits atop Hargrave House's 13th-floor rooftop, and at the height of the summer it produced 700 vegetable plants, said David Gillcrist, executive director of Project Find, the nonprofit that runs the senior residence and farm.

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