Lo, the glorious day is nigh. Prepare yourselves! Summer Streets is upon us!
Direct from the DOT:
Summer Streets is for you!
For three Saturdays this August, take pleasure in nearly 7 miles of car-free streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park.
Play! Run! Walk! Bike! Breathe!…at SUMMER STREETS!!
August 9th, 16th and 23rd from 7am - 1pm
Lafayette Street […]
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Posted in Parks and Open Space on Jun 30th, 2008
[Image via Friends of the High Line]
Last week, Friends of the High Line unveiled some new images of what we can soon expect on that long derelict site. Curbed has all the coverage:
Phase One of The High Line runs from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 20th Street. We’ve seen some renderings from […]
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[Photo from greenbuildingsNYC]
greenbuildingsNYC has a rather startling post on NYC’s only national park, and how it’s fragile ecosystem is under seige from, of all things, shipwrecks. Stephen del Percio explains:
Jamaica Bay has become the dumping ground for derelict yachts, boats, and even barges according to a recent report on MSNBC.com. Despite its protection as […]
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Hot on the heels of the big Summer Streets announcement, a group in Williamsburg is planning a similar–if slightly less ambitious–car-free street experiment. Called Williamsburg Walks, for four saturdays (that’s one more than Summer Streets! take that Manhattan!) parts of Bedford Avenue, of course, will be closed off to cars, creating a safe haven for […]
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Posted in Nature, Parks and Open Space on Jun 22nd, 2008
Cranford Rose Garden Timelapse at Brooklyn Botanic Garden from Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Vimeo.The Brooklyn Botanical Garden reminds us that nature keeps a calendar even here in the five boroughs. Beautiful time lapse video of the Cranford Rose Garden. A couple months back they made one of these for the Cherry Blossom bloom […]
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[Photo from gbNYC]
The Queens Botanical Garden has achieved NYC’s first LEED Platinum rating in their new visitors center. greenbuildingsNYC has first word:
The Queens Botanical Garden Visitor & Administration Center officially received its LEED Platinum rating today from USGBC. The Visitor’s Center is the first building in New York City to earn Platinum under LEED for […]
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[Photograph by Adam Spangler, Vanity Fair.]
Not sure how we missed this a couple months back, but Vanity Fair (oh, that’s how) had a really nice piece by Adam Spangler about ecological–and community–restoration along the Bronx River, and a canoe trip. It’s really quite an inspiring read.
…here I am in a canoe, paddling down an […]
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Posted in Community, Parks and Open Space on Jun 4th, 2008
Gothamist gives some ink (errr, pixels?) to the seeming reemergence of guerilla gardening in the city.
The worldwide Guerrilla Gardening movement has been around in some form for quite a while, in New York the Green Guerillas even took over a vacant lot on Bowery in the 70s. Since then some residents of the city have […]
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Posted in Parks and Open Space, Water on Jun 3rd, 2008
William C. Thompson Jr. and Robert Kennedy Jr. had an op-ed in the Times last week about Ridgewood Reservoir that calls into question some Parks Department plans to “renovate” the long abandoned reservoir as athletic fields.
It begins:
MANY people are astounded to learn that there is a teeming wildlife preserve in New York City. Ridgewood Reservoir […]
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Posted in Events, Nature, Parks and Open Space on May 30th, 2008
Our friend Eric Baard has added a new feature to his already riveting Nature Calendar. It’s called the WildWire, and serves as a nice complement to this little reblog for those in our audience who fancy themselves fans of the out of doors. It’s a weekly summary of cool outdoorsy type events and happenings, and […]
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