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Shop Harlem Live Harlem Lifestyle Expo

MIST Harlem 46 W. 116th Street (btwn Lenox Avenue and Fifth Ave.), New York , NY, United States

Experience 60+ lifestyle businesses, panel discussions, workshops and family/kids activities. Learn why Harlem is NYC's favorite neighborhood to EAT, SHOP, PLAY!

Free

Kids Food Festival

Celsius 41 W 40th St, New York, NY, United States

Teach your kids the value of healthful, nutritious food the fun way through cooking demos, live entertainment, and a scavenger hunt on March 5 and 6.

Free

New York Transit Museum: Special Day for Special Kids

New York Transit Museum Boerum Pl, Brooklyn, New York, United States

Enjoy the Transit Museum before we open to the public! This FREE event is for children with special needs and their families.

Free

Good Food Documentary: Food Chains

Park Slope Food Co-Op 782 Union St,

Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets.

Free

Where We Stand: The Intersection of Public Art and Gentrification

Brownsville Heritage House Inc 581 other Gaston Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY, United States

ArtBridge is hosting a panel discussion that will bring together local residents, small business owners, artists and community leaders to address how art can be a positive force in neighborhoods like East New York and Brownsville.

Free

Pursuing Sustainability In The Anthropocene Age

Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as they bring together sustainable business experts for our conversation series on Friday evenings 6:00 - 8:00 pm during the Bard MBA residency each month. Held at Impact Hub NYC, this is a unique opportunity to engage with some of the most prominent experts in the field and interact with the Bard MBA's students, faculty, and alumni. Open to the public!

$10

35th Annual Making Brooklyn Bloom

Unnamed Venue 1100 Washington Avenue

Gardeners cultivate more than plants—they grow an enduring sense of place and connection to our city in the face of rapid urban change. Inspired by the patience and mindfulness embodied by BBG’s Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden (currently celebrating its 100th anniversary), this year’s theme, “Deep-Seeded Gardening,” honors our deep-seated connections to the gardens and green spaces of Brooklyn.

Free

A Talk through New York City’s Commons at Fordham Law School

Fordham Law School Room 3-09 150 West 62nd Street, New York , NY, United States

A Talk through NYC's Commons at Fordham Law School, hosted by the Community Economic Development (CED) Clinic & the Fordham Urban Law Center.

We will explore gardens, parks, community farms and other shared real estate assets that communities have created as autonomous spaces outside NYC's speculation-driven land market.

Free

Habitat III Agenda and Gender Equality: Safe Cities and Safe Public spaces for Women and for All

Conference Room 11 United Nations Headquarters , New York, NY, United States

In preparation towards the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), to be held in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016, UN Women Office in Ecuador in close coordination with the DED’s office proposes a CSW-60 side event on “Habitat III Agenda and Gender Equality, Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and for All.” The side event provides the opportunity to influence the process towards Habitat III. It will advocate for the full recognition of and the important contributions of women to the urban development agenda.

Free

Safer Cities +20: Public Space and Gender

United Nations Headquarters - Conference Room 11 New York, NY, United States

The side event will address the priority theme of CSW 60: ‘Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development’ as well as the review theme ‘The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls’ from the agreed conclusions from the 57th session.

Free