New York City events and entertainment (film, theater, art, Fleet Week, Brooklyn Bridge celebration, etc.) happening during Memorial Day Weekend.

New York City is the source for the quintessentially American traits of capitalism, ethnic tolerance, free speech, and reliance on lawyers and lawsuits. Yet the New York legacy generally goes unrecognized. How did New York come to have such a formative influence on the United States? And how did it manage to do so without [...]

Adirondacks, a documentary about the region, airs May 22 at 9pm on Thirteen. Do you have nature, vacation, or home photos from the upper NY state area? Tag your flickr photos with “13adirondacks” and be added to our slideshow here:

Living in New York City, the line between public and private space blurs. The photographers in an NYPL exhibit called ‘Eminent Domain’ address that line, a line crossed regularly by city dwellers turned inadvertent voyeurs. Watch SundayArts segment…

Teenagers are most vulnerable for the illness of depression threatening their lives.

New York Voices:
New York Voices did a story in 2005 about treatments and problems of some NY teens, watch it here.
NewsHour:
Has long-covered different medical developments in the field, and reported a number of stories about, and by teens who have lived through depression: [...]

In case you didn’t know, Staten Island is actually a pretty green place. In fact, New York’s least densely-populated borough is set to build the city’s first green police precinct.

The New York Photo Festival in Dumbo was the place to be this weekend for anyone interested in contemporary photography. That’s why I was surprised to see a 1922 historic carved wood carousel completely rehabilitated to it’s original condition among the the photo galleries in the waterfront area of Brooklyn, under the Manhattan Bridge overpass. [...]

For many people New York City is all about grand scale, but for a designer, the city is about the details. Bill Stubbs visits some favorite haunts and people.

Topics include what legislation he has successfully and unsuccessfully championed, and what his final state budget might look like, among other issues. Our guests are Doug Doyle, news director at WBGO-FM; Kathy Barrett Carter, editorial page writer for the Star-Ledger and Josh Margolin, from the Statehouse Bureau of the Star-Ledger. Originally aired 5/17/2008.

• Orientalism in New York, 1850-1980
• Weavings from Timbuktu and Tibet
• Betrayed at the Culture Project
• The Single Object Still Life
• Shaker Design
• Momix at the Joyce Theater