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Official Festival Mappy Hours

Join Best Made for not just one, but two evenings alongside great presenters filled with whiskey, maps, stories and camaraderie !

$6.27

Egg Rolls, Egg Creams and Empanadas Festival

Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY, United States

Celebrate art and culture at this block party with the diverse ethnic communities of the Museum’s Lower East Side/Chinatown neighborhood !

Free

Summer Social & Local Food and Farming

North Brooklyn Farms 320 Kent Avenue , New York, NY, United States

Come celebrate the first day of summer at the new farm in Williamsburg and learn about Brooklyn Farms' history, plans for the future and the consciousness behind the “eating and farming local” movement !

$25

Queens/Brooklyn: Newtown Creek Photography & Nature Walk

If industrial backyards and vistas of the New York City skyline from skewed perspectives are your idea of a good time—this walk's for you. Come join our walk and photography series all over the 5 boroughs !

Free

Shell-ebrate Oysters!

Pier 25 Pier 25, New York, NY, United States

Oysters have a long history in NYC’s waters. Learn about oysters and help restore them back into the Hudson River.

Free

Zoning New York Scavenger Hunt

Open House New York 1133 Broadway, Suit 802, New York, NY, United States

Open House New York and the Museum of the City of New York invite you to celebrate the centennial anniversary of New York City’s zoning resolution with a citywide scavenger hunt to uncover how the invisible forces of zoning have shaped the city around us, from the dramatic setbacks of Jazz Age skyscrapers to the vast open plazas of mid-century Modernism.

$30

Our Capitalogenic World: Humanity, Nature, and the Making of a Planetary Crisis

Swiss Institute 18 Wooster Street, New York, NY, United States

The planetary crisis today cannot be adequately understood as a conflict of “humans” and “nature.” Learn how the making of planetary crisis is rooted in capitalism’s peculiar way of organizing nature, one committed to “putting nature to work” for free or low cost.

Free

Bronx River Bike Tour

Norwood (205th Street D Train Station) 280 East 206th Street, Bronx, NY, United States

Come be awed by the Bronx River's beauty: bike with NYC H2O's Matt Malina to tour the river from Williamsbridge Oval to its source in Valhalla!

$21.99

Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water

Columbia Law Schoool Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106, New York, NY, United States

Urban resilience also means changes in land use along with better and more equitable ways to protect a city's people. Realizing these innovations requires that New York and other great cities must give high priority to advancing the emerging capacities to foster and make the most of new approaches to climate risk management.

Free

Book Talk: Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert Kanigel

The Tenement Museum 103 Orchard Street, New York, United States

Come hear Robert Kanigel talk about his book, the first major biography of Jane Jacobs. “Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs” is about the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence can still be felt in any discussion of urban planning to this day.

Free