In summer 2026, Future Green's research interns contributed to the firm’s ongoing exploration into urban patchwork ecologies by investigating how public realm furnishings from the Department of Transportation could be approached not just as individual objects, but as armatures for broader ecological networks in the city. Within the current context of city campaigns like the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and Red Hook Coastal Resiliency Project, interns James Flood Roberts and Aja Procita chose existing nodes in Future Green's Red Hook neighborhood to analyze for potential reinvention, and to explore enhanced connections through the urban fabric for people, plants, and wildlife. In light of the mayor’s office’s increased receptivity to more radical green infrastructure proposals for the public realm, the interns used physical model-making at various scales as a means to scrutinize the existing design and distribution of ubiquitous DOT street furniture, and to illuminate their more unfamiliar, interconnected potential.