Family Workshops at Dulce De Harlem Community Garden
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
Kleindeutschland: An East Village History
Join art historian Sylvia Laudien-Meo to explore the beginnings of German culture in New York City!
Big Ideas for Smart Cities: Communication Economy
Join LaunchLM for Big Ideas for Smart Cities, a series of six events focused on innovations to create a more technologically advanced public realm within Lower Manhattan.
LES gets a Big U: architecture + culture = resilience
City Atlas spoke with one of the designers of the Big U about the design philosophy behind the Big U, the process of working with the community, and what New York City can learn from Copenhagen.
New York City Poetry Festival
Come join this two day festival to celebrate NYC’s vibrant poetry community on Governor’s Island!
Volunteer Weekly Garden Crew
Join the Garden Crew in their weekly workdays and help redesign and plant garden beds and learn more about planting, pruning and other horticultural techniques!
High Line Teen Night: ’90s in NYC
The High Line Teen Arts Council (TAC) has been working all spring to host this night of music, dancing, art, and other fun activities for teens only. Our talented teens pick the theme, curate the music, create the art, and transform the High Line.
Transportation Alternatives Activist Meeting
Join the T.A. Queens Crew for heir monthly meeting and find out how you can get involved in our fight for safer streets!
Beach Ride
This Sunday, Time’s Up will be host a beach ride! Join us for the leisurely bike ride out to Rockaway Queens Beach (Fort Tilden) to enjoy an endless summer afternoon of swimming and relaxing on the beach.
Rally to Ban Fracking Outside “Women for Cuomo” Luncheon
Come to the outside of The Plaza Hotel to tell Cuomo that fracking is an important health issue, for women, for men, and for all New Yorkers!
New York Restoration Project and Sustainable South Bronx Tree Care Workshop Series
Come find out for yourself and help cultivate, mulch, prune, water and clean the major tree pits bordering the Hunts Point Recreation Center and major walking routes!
The world slackline championship comes to Central Park
City Atlas attended the Adventures NYC 10 Year Anniversary Weekend in Central Park, where there was kayaking, rock climbing, paddleboarding, and more.
In A World of Their Own: Coney Island Photo Exhibition
Aaron Rose documented a “sun-baked melting pot” of beachgoers of all ages, ethnicities, and walks of life, each one utterly unselfconscious, absorbed in a world of his or her own in Coney Island.
To B or Not To B Corp Certified? Workshop
Slow Money NYC will present a workshop about B Corp Certification. “B Corp is to business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or USDA…
Is New York sustainable for artists?
It’s graduation season and many graduating art majors are choosing between running towards or away from New York City. Whether staying or leaving, the young artists we interviewed all seem to agree that New York’s mecca-like quality is related to its human capital.
Community Saltmarsh Grass Planting
Join the community-led planting and restoration day on Ruler’s Bar and Blackwall marsh islands in Jamaica Bay.
Vacant lots into community gardens: a profile of 596 Acres
596 Acres seeks to turn the abundance of vacant lots in New York City into opportunity. Its mission is to help make unused land in the city accessible and to help transform it into “community resources,” usually gardens.