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Moonlight bike ride

Grand Army Plaza Grand Army Plaza, Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn , NY, United States

Take a night ride with Time's Up every second Saturday of the month!

Rockspot bike tour in the Rockaways

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

Rockspot Bike Tour Time: Sunday, October 12th, 2014, 11Am-1PM Departure Location: Firehouse 59 at 5803 Rockaway Beach Blvd, Rockaway, NY The Rockspot Bike Tours are interactive tours…

Free

GreenHomeNYC sustainable career panel

Tweed Courthouse 52 Chambers Street, New York, NY, United States

Interested in knowing more about different careers in sustainability? Then register here to attend the October GreenHomeNYC (GHNYC) Green Careers meeting. Space is limited. Registration closes noon on Monday, October 13th.

GHNYC invites a panel of professionals to come discuss what they do, how they got to where they are, and what advice they have for people interested in jumpstarting their careers. Come with questions and gain some great insight. After the meeting, GHNYC will head over to a neighborhood bar for additional networking and conversation.

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