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Join the Grand Central Terminal Official Guided Tour

Grand Central Terminal 87 East 42nd Street , New York, NY, United States

In celebration of Grand Central Terminal’s centennial year, MTA Metro-North Railroad has teamed up with The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) and Orpheo Inc. to provide new daily docent-guided tours of the terminal.

$20

Join the Grand Central Terminal official guided tour

Grand Central Terminal 87 East 42nd Street , New York, NY, United States

In celebration of Grand Central Terminal’s centennial year, MTA Metro-North Railroad has teamed up with The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) and Orpheo Inc. to provide new daily docent-guided tours of the terminal.

$20

Drain: Planning for Climate Change (Naomi Klein and Kate Orff)

Wood Auditorium Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

We are living in Decade Zero, the tipping point after which irreparable changes delivered “in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts” will wreck…

Join the Grand Central Terminal official guided tour

Grand Central Terminal 87 East 42nd Street , New York, NY, United States

In celebration of Grand Central Terminal’s centennial year, MTA Metro-North Railroad has teamed up with The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) and Orpheo Inc. to provide new daily docent-guided tours of the terminal.

$20

A Changing Landscape: Public Space and the New Administration

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

Join a discussion on the transition and changing perspectives on public space in NYC, from Bloomberg's administration to Mayor De Blasio

$10.00

Clean Tech 2014: Incentives for Innovation

Bard MBA Classroom 1150 6th Avenue, Floor 5, New York, NY, United States

Clean technology? Learn more about how business and industries can transition to be part of a more resource-efficient and low-carbon economy at Bard MBA in Sustainability and the Sustainability Practice Network's upcoming event in their Sustainable Business Series, "Clean Tech 2014: Incentives for Innovation."

Free

New York City’s Favorite Train Show: A 23-Year Tradition

New York Botanical Garden 200 Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY

Step into an annual tradition where G-scale model trains zip around landmark replicas in the Haupt Conservatory, humming along a quarter-mile of track through a city in miniature. Real trains, real landmarks, real fun—only at NYBG!

$10.00 – $20.00

Urban Green Harbors Workshop

Pershing Hall on Governor's Island

How would nature design resilient breakwaters, supporting human and ecological services and functions?

Urban Green Harbors Workshop is all day design charrette where attendees will learn about natural means of coastal protection and participate in a design team to incorporate these concepts into a design for a natural breakwater to protect Governor's Island.

$60

Join the Grand Central Terminal official guided tour

Grand Central Terminal 87 East 42nd Street , New York, NY, United States

In celebration of Grand Central Terminal’s centennial year, MTA Metro-North Railroad has teamed up with The Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) and Orpheo Inc. to provide new daily docent-guided tours of the terminal.

$20

Pedestrian Modern Book Talk with David Smiley

Knoll New York Showroom 1330 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, United States

DOCOMOMO New York/Tri-State presents author David Smiley, who will discuss his 2013 book, Pedestrian Modern: Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956.

In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption—stores and shopping centers—informed emerging modernist tenets.

New York City Sustainability Jam

The New School 25 East 13th Street 2nd Floor , New York, NY, United States

The Global Sustainability Jam is 48 hours of great creativity, learning, meeting talented people and having fun!

You will be working with people of various backgrounds who you might never have met before, bouncing ideas off one another and turn your ideas into real-world solutions related to “Sustainability”.

Free