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.
Join us on journey into the wilds of New York City: Urban camping, foraging in Central Park, boat living on the Upper West Side.
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.
An initiative called NYC Cool Roofs is encouraging building owners to paint the roof of their building with a reflective white paint.
Local gardeners are trying to figure out what proposed new rules could mean for their patches of paradise.
Squatters and graffiti artists turned an old MTA power plant along the Gowanus Canal into their own playground, named after Batman's old haunt.
Soundview Park in the Bronx serves as a getaway for New Yorkers unable to get out of town.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's famed cherry blossom trees draw a crowd.
Some small shops are no long offering customers disposable bags with purchases.