via Mott Haven Herald
School Tops Green Roof List
Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School is the first public school in the city to get a "green roof."
Topic: Environment
via New York Daily News
Valet Parking for Bikes Rolls Out
Transportation Alternatives, which promotes biking over fume-spewing cars in the city, has established a new service at public events designed to draw folks on bikes rather than in vehicles.
The Green Apple: A Wild City
Join us on journey into the wilds of New York City: Urban camping, foraging in Central Park, boat living on the Upper West Side.
via New York Daily News
From Broadway to Bedbugs
Janet Friedman has gone from Broadway to bedbugs - and couldn't be happier. The scourge has spawned the growth of niche startups - like Friedman's Bed Bug Busters NY - that prepare apartments for an exterminator.
Rooftop Reflections on Going Green
An initiative called NYC Cool Roofs is encouraging building owners to paint the roof of their building with a reflective white paint.
via The Local
Digging Into Community Garden Plan
Local gardeners are trying to figure out what proposed new rules could mean for their patches of paradise.
via Explain the Plan
Inside Brooklyn’s Bat Cave
Squatters and graffiti artists turned an old MTA power plant along the Gowanus Canal into their own playground, named after Batman's old haunt.
via Explain the Plan
A Staycation in the Park
Soundview Park in the Bronx serves as a getaway for New Yorkers unable to get out of town.