Shorewalkers is hosting this walk in celebration of City of Forest Day. We’ll learn to recognize some trees in the city by learning stories about them. We’ll walk in beautiful parks to get to know a sampling of trees, and venture on neighborhood sidewalks and see the trees as street plantings. START TIME: Arrive at … Continue reading Fort Tryon Park: Tree Walk – A Canopy of Stories
Join NYRP for a free community celebration of North America’s largest native fruit: the beloved pawpaw and native trees. Featuring a pawpaw sapling giveaway, park tours, music, community partners, participant-powered smoothies made with our bike blender, and a workshop and talk about pawpaw propagation. Plus music and community partner activities!
Summer on the Hudson: Little Red Lighthouse Festival. Celebrate Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse with the Urban Park Rangers, readings of the eponymous children’s book, live music, local organizations, and activities for all ages! The Little Red Lighthouse is beloved by New Yorkers and visitors alike. Join us in our quest to ensure that the Little Red Lighthouse can safely receive visitors for years to come. We highly recommend that visitors looking to tour the lighthouse earlier in the day arrive before noon. Tickets will be timed for a 40-minute window.
Great Trees of Inwood Hill Park. Join the Urban Park Rangers on a walk-through Manhattan’s oldest growth forest! Learn about the benefits trees provide to our urban environment as we enjoy the shade and identify many of our native trees.
Step into the action with live armored demonstrations, activities, exhibitions, and the sights, sounds, and excitement of medieval life! Step into the action at Gladiators NYC! Travel back in time for an afternoon of medieval adventure at Fort Tryon Park! Young adventurers can take up foam swords and shields, learn basic sword-and-shield skills from members of Gladiators NYC, and put their skills to the test in supervised sparring.
Word Up welcomes Hunter professor Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides to discuss her two books, Beyond Compliance: Reclaiming Agency in Special Education and Does Compliance Matter in Special Education?: Idea and the Hidden Inequities of Practice (Disability), which examine how special education policy in the United States both protects students’ rights and, at times, reproduces deep inequities
