Times Up! takes over Williamsburg lot as first garden
In its twenty-five years of action, Times Up! has never had its own community garden. Until now.
BK Botanic Garden Sakura Matsuri Festival
Saturday, April 27–Sunday, April 28, 2013 | 10 a.m.–6 p.m. A weekend celebrating traditional and contemporary Japanese culture Taiko Drumming • Manga • Tea Ceremonies…
Jane’s Walk NYC
On Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5, thousands of New Yorkers will come together for Jane’s Walk NYC – a weekend series of 100+ FREE guided…
NYC Wildflower Week: May 11-19th
NYC Wildflower Week presents a full week of free events to showcase the 53,000 acres of open space and 778 native plants in NYC’s 5…
Riding the future of the Brooklyn Waterfront Conference
The speakers delved into the history of biking, current undertakings to create bike lanes and redesign streets, as well as proposed future plans–all with a focus on the Brooklyn waterfront.
It’s National Grilled Cheese Day!
It’s National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day! A guide to making and eating in NYC.
New bike share station spotted in Bed-Stuy
A Citi Bike Share station has appeared on the corner of Grand and Fulton Streets
Worm Fest!
Worm Fest is the celebration of worms and composting. Children and their families are invited to this free event to learn about worms, feed them…
Apply to be an Organizing Fellow at 596 Acres
596 Acres is a growing, innovative nonprofit that makes use of vacant land, helping organizers turn it into productive community gardens and urban farms. They…
Compost for Brooklyn Workday!
This Saturday, March 30th 11-2 pm come on out to the workday at Compost for Brooklyn. We need your help as we finish up renovations…
Free trees from the NYRP
The New York Restoration Project, the Bette Midler-founded, community garden-protecting organization has announced its annual Spring Tree Giveaway. The NYRP, in partnership with Toyota, will…
4th Annual Meatball Slapdown Fundraiser: April 4th
The Meatball Slapdown Returns! Fourth Annual Fundraiser to take place at Brooklyn Brewery On Thursday, April 4th at 7pm, Brooklynites will once again discover…
New Yorkers forge ahead with rooftop farming
New York has never settled for second place, and the city already has the largest rooftop farms in the world.
Public Design Workshop for the BK Waterfront Greenway
Your Voice Is Needed! NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) will hold a Public Design Workshop for the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway on Wednesday, March 20, 2013.…
Bikes and the Brooklyn Waterfront: March 22nd
Bikes and the Brooklyn Waterfront. March 22, 2013 March 22, 2013 8:30am – 12:30pm at New York City College of Technology 300 Jay St, Room…
Drake and the resilient city
With transparency and sustained idealism, Drake presented her firm’s urban sponges, parks, and “infra-sutures” that aim to heal past wounds and current conflicts caused by massive city projects–like Moses’s BQE, and by “acts of god” like Sandy.
Twitter map reveals NYC’s lingual diversity
The map’s English tweets are almost indistinguishable from a road map, creating a grid of New York’s busiest streets. Altogether, 22 languages were identified.