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Gowanus Wild by Miska Draskoczy

Ground Floor Gallery 343 5th St. (off 5th Avenue) , Brooklyn , NY, United States

What is nature? What is wild? Artist Miska Draskoczy explores these concepts through photography in his new exhibit, "Gowanus Wild."

Free

Composting in the City workshop at Queens Botanical Garden

Queens Botanical Garden 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United States

Join the NYC Compost Project to learn how to reduce your waste and create "black gold" for your garden by composting leaves, kitchen scraps, garden…

$5

Family Workshops at Dulce De Harlem Community Garden

Dulce de Harlem 620 West 148th Street , New York , United States

Oct. 11th: Indoor Container Gardening

Oct 18th: Make Your Own Pickles (and pickle your veggies!)

Oct. 25th: Seed Saving & Pumpkin Carving

Nov 1st: Compost: A New Beginning

Free

Open house New York

Various NY, United States

This annual festival gives attendees access to more than 150 of the city’s coolest and most exclusive architectural sites, private homes and landmarks, plus behind-the-scenes…

Free

Red Hook Food Vendors

Red Hook Recreational Area 155 Bay St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

The Red Hook Food Vendors will open for the 40th year in a row, serving up Mexican, Guatemalan and other Latin American fare at the soccer fields and park on Clinton and Bay Streets in Brooklyn,

Free

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