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Terrifying Zombie Pumpkins Invade the New York Botanical Garden [PHOTOS]

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New York Teen Invents In-Sole Sensor that Can Track Wandering Alzheimer’s...

New York City teen Kenneth Shinozuka has invented a new wearable sensor called the SafeWanderer that can help keep Alzheimer’s patients safe. Inspired by his own grandfather’s battle with the disease,...

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Inside Tour: Ethical Fashion Designer M Patmos Gives Her Brooklyn Home a...

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Staten Island Brownfield Transformed into a Lush, Storm-Fighting Park

Staten Island’s beautiful Heritage Park is now officially open for fall frolicking, but the lush green space wasn’t always so verdant. Set on the waterfront near Richmond Terrace, the park was reborn...

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2 Chelsea Lofts Combined into 1 Gorgeous Eco Apartment For a Growing Family

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CANSTRUCTION: Gravity-Defying Structures Made of Food Cans Rise in NYC

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BIG’s West 57th Street Pyramid-Like Apartment Building Reaches Full Height

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A High Line-Style Park May Be Coming to the JetBlue Terminal at JFK

Tourists who missed the High Line while staying in NYC may soon be able to get a last-minute taste of the popular park right if JetBlue gets its way. The airline is hoping to create a snippet of the...

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2,000 Stormwater-Absorbing Sidewalk Gardens Planned for Queens, Brooklyn and...

If you live in Brooklyn, the Bronx or Queens, a lush new rainwater garden may soon be popping up on a sidewalk near you. New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection recently announced plans...

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Long Island Green Dome is the World’s Largest Wooden Residential Dome!

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Diane Von Furstenberg to Bring $130 Million Elevated Park to Hudson River...

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NY Kicks Off Textile Recycling Campaign to Divert 1.4 Billion Pounds of...

New York has kicked off a new campaign to bolster clothing and textile recycling statewide. Called “Clothes the Loop,” the initiative is the brainchild of the New York State Association of Reduction,...

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BKSK Architects’ LEED Gold-Seeking Complex Boasts Modern Amenities and Green...

New York-based BKSK Architects is aiming high with their latest project, The Jefferson. The 115,000-square-foot, multi-family complex located on the East Village site of a former vaudeville theater by...

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PHOTOS: Tour Philip Johnson’s Famous Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut

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Snowy Thanksgiving Week Forecast Could Lead to Messy Travel Conditions in...

Marian Weyo Vejcik / Shutterstock.com East Coasters may want to add good snow tires to their list of things to be thankful for this week. Though it’s still too early to tell for sure, winter storm...

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Will the Hudson Yards “Thrill Device” really make you crap your pants?

In this week’s odd architecture news, Related Companies president Jay Cross reportedly surprised guests at a real estate luncheon recently by boasting that the second tower in the developer’s mammoth...

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The sad reason why One World Trade Center had to scrap its green dreams

When plans for the recently opened One World Trade Center were first made public years ago, they promised to deliver not only one of the tallest and most impressive buildings in the world, but also...

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NYC developers team up to boost shipping container housing and retail in the...

Shipping container homes and shops have been popping up here and there around New York City, but two developers are hoping to bring a lot more of the sustainable design trend to the Big Apple....

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New Yorker Creates Giant Holiday Card by Biking Across Manhattan

People spend hours making their own DIY cards for the holidays but we think we can say pretty confidently that New Yorker Erik Trinidad’s is the most labor-intensive one we’ve ever seen. In order to...

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Popular graffiti-clad artist collaborative slated for passive house makeover

After years of delays, it looks like ABC No Rio‘s popular graffiti-clad art house will finally be getting its ultra-green makeover. Almost five years ago, news of the artist cooperative building’s...

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