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Cuomo wants to build a 750-mile trail from NYC to Canada

What if you could travel across the state on foot - from top to bottom and one end to the other - using one continuous trail. Say hello to the Empire State Trail. Governor Cuomo just announced...

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Central Park gets a new fleet of clean, green garbage carts

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Times Square Valentine's Heart celebrates diversity and immigration in NYC

This year's annual Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition will celebrate the role that immigrants have played in the development and vibrancy of New York. Called "We Were Strangers Once Too,"...

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Citi Bikes to start projecting lasers onto the streets

NYC's Citi Bike is aiming to make the already safe bike sharing scheme (nearly 37 million trips since the system's installation in 2013 and zero fatalities) even safer by installing laser safety lights...

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Studio Gang reveals new details about the American Museum of Natural History...

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is tackling climate change, habitat loss and threats to life and health on Earth "in the post-truth era" with Studio Gang's new Gilder Center. The Museum...

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This organization is bringing the first monument honoring a woman to Central...

It took over seventy years of advocacy for women to be granted the right to vote in the United States. Determined, pioneering citizens such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony helped make...

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Greenwich Village's Gotham Bar and Grill to be powered with 100% clean energy

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70,000 birds have been killed so far to prevent another 'Miracle on the Hudson'

Eight years ago this week, "Sully" Sullenberger landed in the Hudson, and since then, nearly 70,000 birds have been slaughtered to prevent it from happening again. But data show that the problem hasn't...

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Gowanus Canal is safe enough to boat in, just don't take a swim, says new report

An study eight years in the making reveals that you can breathe and hang out around the Gowanus Canal, just don't get in it. Or touch it. Or eat seafood from it. Other than that, totally safe. The...

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Governors Island will open early this year with a new sustainable seafood...

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The Women's March on NYC and other ways to make your voice heard this week

Looking for a way to make your voice heard about the incoming Trump administration? The New York City sister march to the Women's March in Washington D.C. takes place this Saturday with supporters like...

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State Senate guts measure to tax plastic bags in New York City

The New York League of Conservation Voters has estimated that every year New Yorkers throw  away 10 billion plastic bags.  So,  passing a law to tax people 5 cents each if they choose to use a plastic...

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This tiny houseboat in Queens can be your home-in-the-water for just $59k

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Elizabeth Diller is working an opera for the High...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Elizabeth Diller is blending the line between the environment, art and architecture with an exciting new project: an opera for the High Line.  Everyone's favorite park in the...

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Sleek, nautical home inspired by nearby life saving station from World War II

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Choreographed lights to illuminate New York City bridges and tunnels

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New York has third highest rate of student homelessness in the United States

The Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness has discovered that 1 in 8 children attending public school in New York City has experienced homelessness in some form in the past five years....

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Hundreds gather in front of Trump Hotel to protest the President's DAPL revival

Yesterday, Trump signed executive orders revitalizing the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered at Trump Hotel to let the President know just how they felt about it....

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Ancient salt marsh in the Bronx reveals dangerous flooding likely for NYC

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New York approves the country's largest off-shore wind farm

In New York, the Long Island farm is part of a plan to meet Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s goal of drawing 50 percent of the state’s power from renewable sources by 2030

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