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Transition – Permaculture Open Space Forum

Friends Meeting House 15 Rutherford Place between 2nd and 3rd Ave., New York, NY, United States

Transition activists, permaculturists, and urban agriculture advocates gather to plan impactful collaboration between our networks and movements! Potluck brunch, no charge to attend!

Free

Bastille Day

Upper East Side E 60th Street, between Fifth and Lexington Avenues, New York, NY, United States

Celebrate France’s national holiday at New York’s ultimate street fair!

Free

City of Water Day

Governors Island, New York, NY Governors Island, New York, NY, United States

The region's largest family focused festival that celebrates the world-class potential of the New York and New Jersey waterfront.

Free

Barkfest 2015

50 Kent Avenue 50 Kent Avenue, New York, NY, United States

The world's biggest dog pawty is coming back to New York City on Sunday, July 19.

Free

596 Acres’ Summer *Fun*raiser

Gowanus Studio Space 166 7th St. , Brooklyn, NY, United States

Help 596 Acres continue to cultivate green spaces from vacant land by joining them in raising funds and fun at their Summer *Fun*raiser.

Free

Discovery Day

Freshkills Park 10314, Staten Island , Select a Country:

Go to Freshkills Park for an opportunity to discover the trails and hills of the landfill-to-park project!

Free

Noxious New York: Race, Class and Garbage

The New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Avenue, at 103rd Street, New York, NY, United States

Historian Julie Sze examines the link between race, class, and garbage and explores how culturally and politically disenfranchised communities re-work long-standing conflations between polluted places and peoples.

The talk will address case studies around NYC garbage politics in the 1980s and 1990s, while also considering at previous historical moments and sites outside the city.

Free

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival

Meadow Lake Flushing Meadows Corona Park 11101 Corona Ave, Flushing, NY, United States

The 24th annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York!

Free

The Brooklyn Music Festival

Governors Island, Colonels Row New York

The Brooklyn Music Festival is designed to celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of New York City’s largest borough.

Free