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Downtown Brooklyn Shipping Container Market Returns With a Special Spring...
It’s back! After a winter hiatus, the much beloved Dekalb Market, made from nearly three dozen salvaged shipping containers, is returning to Downtown Brooklyn today Saturday, April 7th. The market...
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New York City Triples Solar Power Production
Thanks to new solar arrays atop ten city buildings, including three police stations, two schools, a fire station, and sanitation department garages, New York City has tripled its solar power...
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Last Year Saw the Most NYC Subway Riders Since 1950
image © Ed Yourdon via Flickr Creative Commons As car-free denizens of New York, we rely on the subway to get us from here to there, and more New Yorkers than ever are doing the same. In 2011, 1.6...
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NYC is the Most Walkable City in the United States
Since most of Inhabitat’s NYC-based writers live a car-free life, we’d be the first to tell you that the Big Apple is extremely walkable, and as it turns out, there is copious data to back-up that...
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Warm, Dry Weather Raises Brush Fire Concerns in NYC
Smoke from the Fresh Kills brush fire in Staten Island As temperatures continue to rise (um, a high of 86 today?!) and rains continue to evade us, brush fires are becoming a very real danger for New...
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Ten Ecotastic Earth Day Activities in New York City
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Green Map Launches New NYC Energy Map
Green Map, the open source system that maps everything eco, is one of our go-to resources for discovering sustainable businesses, local initiatives, and green-living resources. Now the organization...
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Take Your Tots to the New Amsterdam Early Childhood Center’s Annual Spring...
Kick off the spring season by treating your kids to a fun-filled festival in a Lower East Side community garden. The New Amsterdam Early Childhood Center is hosting its Second Annual Spring Fair, a...
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Henry Street Settlement to be a Model for Green Landmarked Buildings in NYC
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The Landmarked Museum of the City of New York Goes Green With a LEED-Seeking...
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Repurposed Barge & 100-Year-Old Tugboat Let New Yorkers Experience NYC’s...
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5 Super-Efficient Tiny New York Apartments
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NYC Man Builds Incredibly Detailed Replica of Brooklyn out of Hundreds of...
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9/11 Memorial Uses Green Design to Create a Place of Remembrance
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The National 9/11 Memorial Is Now Open in NYC – Exclusive Photos!
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8 Amazing Hidden Rooftop Houses You’ve Probably Never Noticed in New York City
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MB Architecture Builds a Beautiful Semi-Subterranean Eco Home in East Hampton
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NYC’s High Line Park So Popular That Creators Plan a High-Speed Tram to Move...
Jeff Koons may want to hang a train over the High Line, but the park’s creators, Friends of the High Line, have decided to put a train back on the High Line in order to keep up with the park’s extreme...
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6 Easy Eco Escapes From New York City
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The Best In-Season Veggies to Buy for Thanksgiving Dinner at Your Local...
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The Best 6 Places to See Spring Bloom in NYC
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NYC’s First Zero Energy School: P.S. 62 in Staten Island Designed by SOM
Thanks to Local Law 86, all of New York City’s civic buildings must be built to sustainable standards, but the School Construction Authority (SCA) was well ahead of the green game by the time that law...
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Vacation in a Mini Cabin Inside of a Brooklyn Apartment
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Rockefeller Center’s Rooftop Gardens are a Hidden Urban Treasure
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NYC farmer Annie Novak shares the ins & outs of rooftop farming in the winter
Photo © Jackie Snow for Wilder Quarterly, used with permission. This article was originally published in February 2012. Rooftop farming during the winter may seem like a bleak prospect, but Annie Novak...
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