• Queens Museum exhibitions

    Queens Museum Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY, United States

    Head over to the Queens Museum of Art for great (and free!) exhibits!
    *Sacred Waters: A Collection of Hindu Offerings from Jamaica Bay.
    *The Natural History Museum: Community Partnership Exhibition Program.
    *From Watersheds to Faucets: The Marvel of New York City's Water Supply System.

    Free
  • Gowanus Wild by Miska Draskoczy

    Ground Floor Gallery 343 5th St. (off 5th Avenue) , Brooklyn , NY, United States

    What is nature? What is wild? Artist Miska Draskoczy explores these concepts through photography in his new exhibit, "Gowanus Wild."

    Free
  • Family Workshops at Dulce De Harlem Community Garden

    Dulce de Harlem 620 West 148th Street , New York , United States

    Oct. 11th: Indoor Container Gardening

    Oct 18th: Make Your Own Pickles (and pickle your veggies!)

    Oct. 25th: Seed Saving & Pumpkin Carving

    Nov 1st: Compost: A New Beginning

    Free
  • Rally for a Verrazano Bridge bike and pedestrian path

    Alice Austen House Museum 2 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NJ, United States

    The Verrazano-Narrows Bride, which connects Staten Island and Brooklyn, is the main missing link in a 50-mile bicycle loop. Help make this connection! For more…

    Free
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden Tour

    Brooklyn Botanic Garden 990 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Every weekend year-round, Brooklyn Botanic Garden offers free guided tours to showcase the season's highlights and exhibit the natural beauty of New York.

    Free
  • Hurricane Sandy anniversary planting in the Rockaways

    Firehouse 59 5803 Rockaway Beach Blvd, Queens, NY, United States

    For the two year anniversary of Storm Sandy, Rockaway Waterfront Alliance (RWA) is bringing people of all ages together to create a nature protective buffer for the Rockaway community.

    Families and people of all ages are welcome to participate in this dune restoration planting & biomimicry project. Students can receive community service hours. No registration is required. This event is rain or shine, so please dress accordingly.

    Free
  • Join the Grand Central Terminal official guided tour

    Grand Central Terminal 87 East 42nd Street , New York, NY, United States

    In celebration of Grand Central Terminal’s centennial year, MTA Metro-North Railroad has teamed up with The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) and Orpheo Inc. to provide new daily docent-guided tours of the terminal.

    $20
  • MAS summit for New York City: equity, place, and opportunity

    TimesCenter 242 W 41st St, New York, NY, United States

    Now entering its fifth year, the 2014 Summit will focus on the themes of Equity, Place, and Opportunity, addressing the need to create an urban…

  • The fate of cities in the long emergency

    Cooper Union Great Hall The Foundation Building, 7 East 7th Street, New York , NY, United States

    Are we compelled to live differently if we expect to remain civilized?

  • Big Apple Crunch 2014

    Various NY, United States

    October 24 is Food Day 2014. What are you eating to celebrate? Apples are a healthy and delicious choice. Big Apple Crunch celebrates healthy eating citywide.…

  • Weekly community composting in Red Hook, Brooklyn

    Red Hook Community Farms 580 Columbia Street, Brooklyn

    Join Added Value, the Red Hook Community Farm in Brooklyn to compost weekly on Fridays from 9:00am to noon and Saturdays from 10:30am to 1:00pm.…

  • Envisioning site resilience in campus-style housing

    Enterprise Community Partners 1 Whitehall Street, 11th Floor, New York, United States

    Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. convenes a panel of experts that will discuss best practice site planning and stormwater management strategies to increase the resilience of a campus style public housing in the event of a storm event.

    Free