Step into an annual tradition where G-scale model trains zip around landmark replicas in the Haupt Conservatory, humming along a quarter-mile of track through a city in miniature. Real trains, real landmarks, real fun—only at NYBG!
The new Lenape Gallery at Conference House Park Visitor Center presents Riding the Waves, a new exhibit of the Museum of Maritime Navigation and Communication.
Interested in honing your creative writing skills? Check out this workshop that begins on January 3rd, 2015 and continues through the 23rd of January!
Come recycle the holiday cheer with the NYC Compost Project Hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center at this season’s Mulchfest, located at Tompkins Square Park!
New York City hosted the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing, Queens. To show off the city's water system that tapped mountain springs as far as 100 miles away, the Cartographic Survey Force, a branch of the Works Progress Administration, constructed a 3-dimensional model of the system out of wood and plaster for @ $100,000 (about $1.5 million in today's dollars).
You can now see the map for yourself and hear about its story from NYC water educator Matt Malina.
Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge for a one-hour family friendly concert. Door open 15 minutes before performance. There will be no…
Help the Conservancy reach its goal of treecycling 500 Christmas trees in Gowanus!
Baked goods and mulled cider will be available.
Join other community members around the fire to discuss the book of the month. Food and drink is encouraged. Book club meetings take place on…
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove will present Urban Alchemy, Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities, published by New Village Press. The presentation will be followed by a conversation with William Morrish on the intersections of public health and urbanism.
This event will feature four perspectives from leaders in this space, on what it’s like being at a startup in the sustainability community, where they see opportunities and challenges, and how they see this community helping to advance sustainability goals.
The announcement that DEC will prohibit fracking in NYS may lead some to believe that now we’re “safe.” However, pipelines, compressor stations, storage caverns and LNG facilities have been and remain the current threat. “The Real Cost of Fracking” authors, Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, will demonstrate why such infrastructure may actually be WORSE than drilling in its health impacts on humans, animals, and our food shed.
This class will trace New York City's protracted struggle to contain its solid waste burden, from the 19th century to the present.
Learn more at the Brooklyn Brainery!