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Ice Pops & Strawberries At The Lowline

Stroll around underground gardens at the Lowline & enjoy complimentary ice pops and Lowline Lab grown strawberries !

Free

Building Low-cost Tree Guards

Join New York Restoration Project (NYRP), your neighbors, and other green souls in sprucing up the block for the Bed-Stuy Summer KickOff.

Free

L.E.S. Decoded: Neighborhood Exploration & Conversation

Unnamed Venue 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, United States

How can we better grasp—and question—the complex building, city, and social codes that shape the neighborhoods around us? From the span of sidewalks and the lifetime of scaffolding to the rules of public restrooms and the limits of loitering, we’ll unravel the official and unofficial rules of public space

Free

14th Annual Drums Along the Hudson

Inwood Hill Park Inwood Hil Park, Manhattan, NY, United States

Join NYC Parks and Lotus Music and Dance for this annual Multicultural Celebration and Native American Festival.

Free

L Train Shutdown Charette

https://www.vanalen.org/events/l-train-shutdown-charette/ As neighborhoods along the L train brace for an interruption in service of unprecedented scale, this fast-paced competition asks interdisciplinary teams to propose implementable…

Free

Official Festival Mappy Hours

Join Best Made for not just one, but two evenings alongside great presenters filled with whiskey, maps, stories and camaraderie !

$6.27

Videogames for Social Impact, Learning and Health

Civic Hall 156 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor, New York, NY, United States

Come meet President of Games for Change, Susanna Pollack, and learn about the power of video games for social good! Susanna will highlight world-changing projects…

Free

Global Premiere: “Thirty Million” a documentary on climate change

UN Secretariat - Conference Room 7 46th and 1st avenue , New York, NY, United States

Thirty Million is a film made to explore the issue of sea level rise in Bangladesh and lift the wider concerns of rising seas into the public domain. After all, Bangladesh isn't the only country with a coastline.

Free

Person Place Thing: Jan Gehl

Van Alen Institute 30 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, United States

Join us for a conversation between Gehl and former “The Ethicist” columnist for The New York Times Randy Cohen in a live recording of the radio show Person Place Thing.

Free