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Free Yoga in Bryant Park

Bryant Park New York

Bryant Park Yoga is returning for its 12th season! Stop by the park
and join a Tuesday morning class or Thursday evening class!

Free

Summer Streets New York City

Summer Streets Park Ave and 72nd Street to Brooklyn Bridge, New York

Sum­mer Streets is an annual cel­e­bra­tion of New York City’s most valu­able pub­lic space—our streets. On three con­sec­u­tive Sat­ur­days in August, nearly seven miles of NYC’s streets are opened for peo­ple to play, run, walk and bike. Sum­mer Streets pro­vides space for healthy recre­ation and encour­ages New York­ers to use more sus­tain­able forms of trans­porta­tion!

Free

Noxious New York: Race, Class and Garbage

The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street, New York

Historian Julie Sze examines the link between race, class, and garbage and explores how culturally and politically disenfranchised communities re-work long-standing conflations between polluted places and peoples.

The talk will address case studies around NYC garbage politics in the 1980s and 1990s, while also considering at previous historical moments and sites outside the city.

Free

Books Beneath the Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge Park 334 Furman Street, New York

WORD is delighted to be returning to the Books Beneath the Bridge reading series with two wonderful fantasy novelists. Naomi Novik and Peter V. Brett will be reading, answering questions and, of course, signing books.

Free