Category Archives: Lifestyle

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A little bit of everything: walking through Fort GreeneOctober 25, 2012On your next journey around New York City, hop on the G train and discover Fort Greene.
 
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The society of young urbanistsJune 11, 2012The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) has been around since 1893, and since its inception has been working to make the City a more livable space.
 
Walking NYCMarch 27, 2012Matt Green, a former civil engineer from Virginia, has taken on an unusual task: to walk every street in New York City.
 
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Weekend Events: Green Careers MeetUp and Solar Energy Discussion, Plus Animals Opening Presents and Candlelight ToursDecember 9, 2011Things to do December 9 to December 11, 2011.
 
Free things to do by dayOctober 29, 2011We love Time Out's list of free things to do in NYC in the daytime hours.Source: newyork.timeout.com, via City Atlas
 
The New Museum’s Giant Slide (And More) Has Arrived!October 28, 2011The giant plastic tube, which goes down from the museum's fourth floor, through ceilings and floors, to the second floor is now fully operational and will be open to the public from tomorrow through January 15, 2012.Source: gothamist.com, via City Atlas
 
Welcome to the 4th Dimension! October 26, 2011October 24, 2011VanDam’s 4DmApp, the world’s first series of maps where you become part of the map in 4D cartographic space. Celebrate at the launch party and step inside the map while sipping a drink. See 4DmApp take over the AIGA National Design Center i...
 
Find Your Way in a City GPS-Free by Paying Attention to the Ubiquitous CuesOctober 13, 2011 Your phone's GPS capabilities mean you can pinpoint yourself on a map with the tap of your finger, but should your battery die or your phone go on the fritz, would you be able to navigate compass-free?Source: lifehacker.com, via City Atlas
 
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The Building Names Project: Giving Character to Urban SpacesSeptember 24, 2011Named buildings evoke a bygone era when owners, builders and designers identified their buildings with personality and humor.
 
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Fill in the Blank, Insert ____ Here Art Suggests Green Community ProjectsSeptember 19, 2011We wanted to put the power of creative thinking in the hands of community organizations and give people a chance to think positively in the face of climate change.
 
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Good Tips for Beginner CyclistsSeptember 17, 20117 Tips For New Cyclists Who Want To Stay Safe: Gothamist More New York­ers are com­mut­ing by bicy­cle than ever before, and if you’ve been con­sid­er­ing join­ing them, fall is a great time to start, now that the summer’s heat is behind us and you can wear your finest tweed. via Gothamist
 
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Rethinking the Sheridan: Municipal Art Society walking tour.August 2, 2011The Munic­i­pal Art Soci­ety of New YorkWednes­day, August 3, 6:00 p.m.Recycling on the River: West­beth to the High Line Walk north through Green­wich Vil­lage and Chelsea to see how faded relics of Manhattan’s mer­can­tile past are find­ing imag­i­na­tive new lives. This tour con­sid­ers sev­eral decades of adap­tive reuse, includ­ing build­ings erected orig­i­nally to han­dle freight, [...]
 
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Shipping Container Architecture from Brooklyn to KyrgyzstanAugust 2, 2011Car­go­tec­ture: 13 Mas­sive Con­tainer Archi­tec­ture Projects | WebUr­ban­istHomes, apart­ments, offices, emer­gency shel­ters – cargo con­tain­ers are a quick, low-cost, envi­ron­men­tally friendly build­ing block for all of these archi­tec­tural pur­poses and more, includ­ing mas­sive urban projects that can involve stack­ing the crates nine sto­ries in the air or group­ing thou­sands into sprawl­ing tem­po­rary markets. via Webur­ban­ist
 
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Start training now so you can bike 100 miles all around NYC! It’ll be a ride you won’t soon forget.July 29, 2011New York City Cen­tury Bike Tour: Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 18, 2011 The 22nd Annual NYC Cen­tury Bike Tour. The nation’s only all-urban 100-mile bike tour. Be a part of it! There are three great rea­sons to ride the NYC Cen­tury Bike Tour: With five dif­fer­ent routes, there’s a ride for everyone!Choose between 15-, 35-, 55-, 75– and 100-mile route [...]
 
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Find out what you can eat in Prospect Park!July 29, 2011Urban For­ag­ing with Leda Mered­ith – Green Edge NYC * Com­mu­nity for a Sus­tain­able Future Time: August 6, 2011 from 9:45am to 12:30pmLocation: Prospect Park Street: Grand Army Plaza Entrance City/Town: Brook­lyn, NY Web­site or Map: http://​www​.greenedgenyc​.org/​E​v​ent Type: tour Orga­nized By: Green Edge NYC Lat­est Activ­ity: Jul 5 Export to Out­look or iCal (.ics) via Greenedgenyc
 
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Come to a family workshop at MCNY where kids can learn to build neighborhoods and cities!July 27, 2011Join archi­tec­tural his­to­rian John Tau­ranac for a walk­ing tour of the edges of the Grid on its 200th anniver­sary on Sun­day, August 7th at 2:00 PM. via Mcny
 
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You’ll never be lost in Red Hook, Brooklyn with this Sustainable Initiatives Map.July 27, 2011Red Hook Green Map | Open Green Map Green Liv­ing Sites. Nature. Social and Cul­tural Resources. Find them all on the Green Map! via Open­green­map
 
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Check out this Gothamist article about the High Line, from 2002.July 25, 2011Exclu­sive: More Unau­tho­rized Pho­tos Of The High Line Phase II: GothamistThe day’s most pop­u­lar sto­ries from Gothamist every evening in your inbox from our newslet­ter. Plus weekly event list­ings on Mondays! via Gothamist