Meet July’s New York Tech Meetup stars
This month’s New York Tech Meetup (NYTM) featured eclectic startups in the fields of news, events, healthy eating, locksmithing, project management, and coding.
More outdoor summer movies!
The best of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx, plus a few more we missed in Brooklyn
Riding the future of the Brooklyn Waterfront Conference
The speakers delved into the history of biking, current undertakings to create bike lanes and redesign streets, as well as proposed future plans–all with a focus on the Brooklyn waterfront.
It’s National Grilled Cheese Day!
It’s National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day! A guide to making and eating in NYC.
Growing the Battery Urban Farm
Battery Urban Farm is unique in two ways. First of all, we’re very accessible, located at street-level in the middle of a public park… Second, we are the largest educational farm on public land in all of Manhattan.
New bike share station spotted in Bed-Stuy
A Citi Bike Share station has appeared on the corner of Grand and Fulton Streets
A (brief) history of sheep and goats in NYC
Goats and sheep are useful for clearing out unwanted plants, especially in areas that would be difficult for lawn mowers to reach. “They help us teach that we are all part of the food cycle,” and have been living and working in NYC for quite a while.
New housing designs for New York’s future
Making Room showcases designs to meet the shifting demographics of cities, such as creating housing for singles and adjusting to changing family sizes.
Arts and energy: a 100% wind powered Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center is now fully wind-powered, showing once again that the art world can be a leader in the movement towards sustainability.
New in the net for NYC: Community Supported Fisheries
Community Supported Fisheries (CSFs) are the cool new twist on CSAs, and the way to end environmentally harmful international fishing practices.
The High Line enters its final stage of development
The final stage of the Highline’s development, known as Highline at the Rail Yards, begins construction.
Gone fishin’: Hunts Point Landing Park now open to everyone
Hunts Point Landing Park has been transformed from what was once a dead-end street into a beautiful park for all to enjoy.
Take a tour of New York…from the nineteenth century
Ever wonder what it was like to stroll through Central Park back when Sheep’s Meadow still had sheep grazing on it? Or to go for…
Microscopic landscape by Malcolm MacDougall III
Visit Union Square Park tonight, June 19, 2012, at 7pm for the ribbon cutting on a new Art in the Parks installation. The installation will be there through January 30, 2013.
The first Food Book Fair comes to Brooklyn
This weekend will be the first annual NYC Food Book Fair – celebrating food writing, reading, and activism.
A Food Fight You Should Get Behind
This Friday May 4th, join author Daniel Imhoff and special guests for a conversation about the Food and Farm Bill, why it matters to you, and what you can do about it.
Learning Made Fun – Let the Festivities Begin
The World Science Festival kicks off at the end of this month so don’t forget to purchase tickets for one of the city’s most stimulating, multidisciplinary, and fun festivals of the year.
Olmsted’s Homesteads
It was 190 years ago yesterday, April 26 1822, that Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Though he held many titles over a…