After yet another mini tussle with my building's management over asking
them to use green materials for work that genuinely needs to be done, I
found myself surfing the website for The Riverhouse,
a new LEED-certified gold building in New York's Battery Park City.
Imagine living in an eco building!? It has twice filtered air, a
wastewater treatment plant on site, solar-powered energy, and will even
boast a highly organic outpost of City Bakery (a personal favorite)
plus a New York Public Library branch. I love to swim but don't often -
I'm not comfortable in highly chlorinated pools. Their "green" lap pool
beckons me from its online rendering: dive right in. I'm gushing. I
don't care. It's a fantasy.
It's so ecofabulous, Leo DiCaprio is
said to have bought an apartment. But he's not what entices me. I have
the site bookmarked because it's the ultimate family building: from the
no to low-VOC finishes to the filtered water to the City Bakery snacks,
living there would really take the guesswork out of being an organic
mom. My life would be so much easier, I thought as I drooled over
various floorplans, if I didn't have to lie in bed smelling the heinous
fumes from the cleaning product being used to mop my hallway floors.
After a while, asking management to switch the products to greener
versions to no avail gets exhausting. There would be no such requests
at The Riverhouse!
This surfing isn't entirely
recreational/masochistic. We are in the market for a bigger place, as
most New Yorkers always are. But their prices, sadly, are out of our
range. Still, I really wanted to see this Mecca in person. I figured it
might be tortuously jealous-making so put it on the bottom of my
endless to-do list.
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