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Gardens Flourish on Top of City Busses
Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It’s an effort that rose out of New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s graduate thesis at the NYU. The project aims to...
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Fruitful Art From the Greenhouse
An orchard of trees with genetically altered properties was growing at this year’s Armory Show in New York City. In the installation, New Edens, by artist Sam Van Aken, the trunks and leader branches...
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On the High Line: The Lull Before the Storm
Toddler poses for us on The High Line. Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton. With cloudless cobalt blue skies above and people coming out of the woodwork, you wouldn’t have known yesterday that Hurricane...
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NYC’s Alphabet City Neighborhood Botanical Garden
On a stroll through New York City’s Alphabet City recently, I discovered some wonderful obscure gardens–that is, I almost walked by before noticing them. Coined Alphabet City because it encompasses...
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My Rooftop-to-Table Dinner at Rosemary’s
Photo: Robin Plaskoff Horton, Urban Gardens I began this week dining with a foodie friend at Rosemary’s, the latest addition to New York City’s restaurants with rooftop gardens and farms. Though our...
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Post-Hurricane New York City Park and Garden Update
Prospect Park volunteers cleaning up after the storm. Photo via Prospect Conservancy. Since Hurricane Sandy blew in and out, many people have asked about the city’s green areas–the parks and gardens....
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New York City’s 80 Foot Holiday Symbol
Photo: Bob Horton We didn’t make it last night to see the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a world-wide symbol of the holidays in New York City, but my husband caught a glimpse of...
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Holiday Stroll Through New York City
The holidays are really all about hope. And although the New York area experienced a great share of tragedy in the past two months, as the city lit up in winter’s darkness, it brought to mind that as...
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Ten Most Walkable Cities in America
Photo: Iviak via Flickr Did you know that people in walkable neighborhoods weigh on average 6-10 pounds less than folks in less walkable communities? Or that walkable places make you happier and...
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Farm School NYC Seeds Local Urban Food System
Next generation of urban farmers and food justice leaders. Within New York City’s approximately 305 square mile radius and amid its vast stretches of concrete and high rises, there is a school without...
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Travels to New York City Via Instagram
It may be my backyard, but whenever I’m in New York City I like to view it as though I’m visiting it for the first time. Join me on a visual and virtual journey to one of my favorite cities. … Read...
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