NY Voices did a walk-through of NYC gardens throughout the 5 boroughs with the authors of Garden Guide: NYC; watch it here. In one of the guides’ gardens this week a 65-foot sculpture was dismantled, and the garden may disappear as well.

The NYBG, located in the Bronx, opened it’s Pfizer Plant Research Lab in the spring of 2006. Soon after, NY Voices did an episode on the lab, interviewing three researchers about the goals, projects and archives of the lab and gardens. Watch entire episode.

Curator Naomi Beckwith guides the viewer through this broad show of young African modern artists, designers and architects, which runs at the Studio Museum though June 29.

Human longing is at the forefront of this week’s Reel 13 short films. A son comforts his dying mother, sweethearts struggle for a deeper connection, and a loner seeks companionship. You voted. Now find out which film won.

From New York’s crown jewel, Central Park, to the nation’s first county park, take a tour of New York and the surrounding area’s noteworthy parks.

In 2002, Marianna Koval and her colleagues at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition organized an effort to plant 25,000 daffodil bulbs in the shape of two towers on the Brooklyn waterfront. A tribute to those lost on September 11, the memorial garden was part of a citywide undertaking that turned into the largest volunteer horticulture [...]

For the fourth straight year, Pale Male — the renowned red-tailed hawk of Central Park — and his mate, Lola, have failed to hatch their eggs. The pair devoted the last month and a half to tending the eggs, but now it appears the incubation period has passed without success.

Nature producer Fred Kaufman and cinematographer Paul Atkins discuss the rarity of catching a lava flow as it hits the ocean–and the perils involved in shooting such an occurrence. See some of the footage from the shoot, too….

Reality check: The Tony Awards aren’t about theater in New York — they are about a certain kind of theater in New York, namely the expensive, mainstream one found on Broadway. But there’s a lot more in NY than the Great White Way…
For instance, one of the most inventive musicals of the season is “The [...]

Unique New York City events and entertainment for Friday May 16 – Sunday May 18…plan your weekend with a few recommendations from us…