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Over three days last month, a tractor rolled out long strips of
the cushiony green carpet that will become the fields of long-held
dreams. Workers lined up the sod with rakes, trimmed overlapping
ends, and readied it to “knit in.”
It will take six to eight weeks, depending on weather conditions,
for the roots to be able to stand up to hard play. Cool, wet weather,
which was the enemy when the soil was being prepared for the sod-laying,
is now the grass’ best friend, said Tessa Huxley, director
of the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, which will maintain
the fields.
By late June or early July, the $6 million fields, designed by the
firm that created Baltimore’s Camden Yards and the Yankees’
minor league park on Staten Island, should be ready to welcome hundreds
of scampering feet.
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