Join GrowNYC as they transform Union Square into New Green City, an all-day celebration of the best sustainable food, technology and art on October 10th. The hands-on symposium will invite New Yorkers to join together to learn and discuss easy green practices towards
If you’re sitting at home wondering what to do on this lovely fall day, we highly recommend hightailing it over to the last day of the Queens County Farm Museum’s annual Queens County Fair. This celebration filled with food, furry friends and fun happens but
Happy Park(ing) Day New York! Take lunch outside today and enjoy the pop-up parks that are reclaiming parking spaces. New Yorkers will celebrate the 7th annual worldwide celebration all over the city by infusing greenery in over 30 parking spots. Check out
Artist Michael Bernstein was finding new uses for the city’s disused dumpsters long before the dumpster pool craze. His Ten Yards project turned one of these trash receptacles into a beautiful and portable garden for the Sculpture Center in Long Island City
This fall, New Yorkers will have a rare opportunity to see the third section of the High Line as it is – before it gets redeveloped into a lush park. Friends of the High Line will open the future third section to lucky visitors for two weekends in October,
The World Trade Center may still largely be a construction site, but on the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks, the site where the Twin Towers used to stand became New York City's newest landmark with the official opening of the National 9/11 Memorial. Designed by architect Michael Arad, the memorial transforms the space from an empty void into an elegant and dignified place of repose. Two reflecting pools, vast expanses in the footprints of the towers, dominate the site, and their cascading waters drown out the surrounding sounds, creating an ideal place to pause and reflect. Opening to the public today, the 9/11 Memorial is a respectful, emotional complex still very much in-progress. Take a look through our photo gallery to see the memorial for yourself.
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is this coming Sunday, and New Yorkers across the city are reflecting and remembering the lives of those who were lost. The city is planning a day-long vigil on September 11, which will include the opening of the highly anticipated national 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero. Designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker, the memorial consists of a peaceful tree-filled plaza and two reflecting pools in the exact places where the towers once stood. Sustainable design principles were used to create the space, which conveys a spirit of hope and renewal and provides a quiet escape from the city. Click through for a preview New York's next iconic landmark.
Greenpoint kids in the SYSTEM program, a summer educational internship sponsored by the Greenpoint YMCA, (as well as NYU Wallerstein Collaborative and Exxon Mobile,) learned how to build a vertical garden in the space-strapped Lentol Garden in their Brooklyn neighborhood.
We’re anxiously awaiting the opening of the LowLine underground park’s life-size scale model next week, but until then, we’re happy checking out a peek at one of the project’s most important (and eye-catching) features — its solar light canopy. If you’ve
The first and only carousel in Hudson County has arrived at Newport Green park in Jersey City! Perfectly timed for Labor Day, it will be up-and-running the entire weekend from 1PM to dusk. To celebrate, Newport is hosting an opening party on Sun., Sept 2nd,
The Delancey Underground’s plans for the LowLine may have seemed like just a pipe dream before, but the exciting underground park is moving forward with two important updates. The organization just reached its $75,000 in 75 days fundraising goal and received
Who says that outdoor lounge chairs need only be for sunbathing? The clever designers at Nea Studio have created a solar-powered Heating Lounger to keep hikers and bikers warm and toasty while they enjoy the Riverdale waterfront in The Bronx. These useful
We’ve seen New Yorkers plant produce everywhere from rooftops to parking lots, but now there’s even a floating garden coming to the East River. Karim Ahmed, a 22-year-old architecture student at The Cooper Union will soon be anchoring his floating garden into
The New York City Parks Department has announced that Philadelphia-based firm Emerald Green Group will spearhead the renovation of iconic Central Park eatery Tavern on the Green. After being closed to the public for two years, the bucolic park-side restaurant
The Brooklyn Grange is in the midst of recruiting a slew of new workers that are small and tough but produce incredibly sweet results — honeybees! The city’s largest rooftop farm, which boasts two sites in Brooklyn and in Queens, has been expanding their
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11/15/2013, November C2C Innovation Celebration
6/27/2013, UGE POWER PARTY - New York Energy Week's featured after party by UGE
6/25/2013, BIG!Workshops: Know Your Tools: Women and Trans 101
6/22/2013, BIG! Workshops: Scaffolding Lumber Benches with Spark Workshops
6/21/2013, Tour the Iconic Breezehouse, Set in Gorgeous Hudson Valley
6/21/2013, Farmer's Market Fridays in Flushing, Queens
6/20/2013, Hot Dogs, Cool Nights: Yappy Hour at Doggie Do & Playtime Too
