May is National Bike Month so dust off your bikes and get on the road. Bike to work and school Friday, May 19th, 2012. Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) will be staffing critical commuter paths around the city on this bike holiday. In the Bronx, we’ll be on 161 Street & Grand Concourse at Lou Gerhig...
Celebrate It’s My Park Day along the Bronx River. Join the Bronx Alliance as they plant, clean, and paint to spruce up Muskrat Cove and Concrete Plant Park. Saturday, May 19th, 2012 Muskrat Cove and Concrete Plant Park 10:00am – 2:00pm Free, no registration required. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit...
Sunday, May 6th, 2012 from 11 am – 4pm. The Festival will take place on Johnson Avenue (between 235th and 236th Streets ) in Riverdale. Music Starting at 11:00 am, there will be live music performances onstage. They hail from: Ireland – Traditional Irish music from Moakland led by Shane O’Sullivan: Serbia – Original jazz compositions and...
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SAT, JANUARY 21 WINTER WORKSPACE: PHOTO-QUILTING @ WAVE HILL WITH SABRINA GSHWANDTNER Sabrina Gshwandtner introduces photography and textile processes to interpret the winter landscape. Participants learn about the artist’s technique of combining 16mm film with quilt-making, photographing nature and then using their images with different quilting patterns to create their own photo-based quilts. Bring digital...
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SAT, SUN, OCTOBER 22, 23 ENCHANTED WAVE HILL WEEKEND There’s magic in the Bronx! Bring your little fairies and gnomes to Enchanted Wave Hill to construct a tiny house in the woods, fashioned from sticks and leaves (and a bit of pixie dust). Then take a break from building to hear about Wave Hill’s fabled...
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum will offer house tours and a series of food-related programs from Friday, October 14, through Sunday, October 16, as part of the Historic House Festival weekend, whose theme is New York City History Never Tasted So Good. A National Historic Landmark, Bartow-Pell, an 1840s Greek Revival mansion, is owned by the...
WHEN: October 15, 2011 9:15 a.m. — 4 p.m. WHERE: Lehman College 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West Bronx, NY The Bronx Children’s Museum’s very first traveling exhibit, “River on the Go,” — an interactive diorama of the Bronx River geared to children from 3- 8 years old — has been invited to the first...
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When Is It? Sunday, October 30, 2011 What Time? 3pm to 6pm Who Produces It? Con Sazon, Inc. What is it? Our annual Halloween costume party is fun for the entire family. Is There a Dress Code? COSTUMES ARE MANDATORY How Much are the Tickets? $10 for kids 2 through 12 $5 for...
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Celebrate a New York Halloween tradition! Visit bats, cats, and creepy-crawly critters and enjoy the crisp fall weather at the zoo. Take the family on a hayride, embark on a Haunted Safari, and enjoy music, magic and more. Treat stations around the park will help sweeten your visit. Kids in costume get in free!*...
Sunday, October 30, 2011 12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Competitive dressers from ears to paws, these pets get the best guffaws! Pre-registration required, call (718) 796-4541. Location: Canine Court (in Van Cortlandt Park), Bronx Location Details: Enter the park on foot at Broadway & 252 Street. Cost: $10 per dog Event Organizer: Van Cortlandt Park Conservancy,...
Enjoy an evening of live entertainment and Italian taste treats at New York’s true Little Italy, Arthur Avenue. In partnership with Bronx Tourism Council and Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Tweet about it Print for later Tell a friend
This ones for the Mamas and Papas! Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum will offer a free composting workshop on Monday, September 19, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Led by Jodie Colón, Compost Educator for the NYC Compost Project in the Bronx, a program of the New York City Department of Sanitation Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse...
On Thursday, September 8th, Barilla will rev up its engines for the race to Casa Barilla! Five Barilla-branded FIAT cars will zip through the Bronx and visit a local Italian treasure. Drivers and brand ambassadors will hand out free tickets for entry into Casa Barilla to everyone who stops by, and the first five...
The garden landscape embodies the promise of rebirth—and loss—perhaps a uniquely appropriate setting for commemorating 9/11. On this special weekend, “Wind Elegy”, as well as a special Family Art Project, offer families the opportunity to focus their thoughts and feelings on the anniversary. With admission to the grounds waived all day Sunday, families will feel especially...
Each year the average New Yorker throws nearly 50 pounds of textiles such as old clothing, towels and shoes in the household trash. That adds up to almost 360 million pounds each year citywide. Help GROWNYC this year again by donating clean and dry clothing, paired shoes, bedding, linens, hats, handbags, belts, fabric scraps 36″...
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