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Sustainable, Healthy, and Resilient Construction

Duarte Square Canal Street & 6th Avenue , New York, NY, United States

  How do you think Mayor de Blasio should promote sustainable, healthy and resilient buildings? Urban Green Council and other sustainability leaders are co-hosting a discussion…

Free

Family day at Center for Architecture

The Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY, United States

Imagine taking a trip to Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo without having to get on a plane! Bring your family to the Center…

$4 – $20

People’s United Nations at Queens Museum

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

The event brings together 195 New Yorkers who are immigrants from or have family connections to the 195 member and observer states that currently make up the UN.

$4 – $8

Philosophy of the City

Brooklyn College Boylan Hall, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, United States

Philosophy began in the city (Plato, Aristotle), and the city is a recurrent topic for major writers in the history of philosophy (Aquinas, Machiavelli); today, as the majority of the world's people live in cities, practitioners are taking the field in new directions -- examining the question, "how shall we live?"

Third Annual Slow Food Show

Astor Center 399 Lafayette Street , New York City , NY, United States

Join NYC's Slow Food for a showcasing of some of the city's best local food entrepreneurs at their annual Slow Food Show.

$10 – $15

Celebrate reimagining the waterfront

City Swiggers 320 East 86th Street, New York, United States

Join CIVITAS for an opening reception celebrating the new Reimagining the Waterfront exhibition location at a local Upper East Side beer store and tasting room,…

Free

The ethics of climate change

Scholastic Auditorium 557 Broadway, New York, NY

Concluding the fall’s The Five Thousand Pound Life programming, which focuses on climate change communication and ethics, Stephen Gardiner will explore how individuals should think…

$10