{"title": "Socio-Ecological Vulnerabilities in the Era of Urban Greening", "start": "2026-11-12T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "society/urbanism"], "description": "A talk titled “Socio-Ecological Vulnerabilities in the Era of Urban Greening” at the College of Staten Island. The speaker is Aurelia Casey, a Staten Islander and doctoral student in Environmental Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY, who is also Youth Programs Senior Manager at the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and Environmental Chair of Brooklyn Community Board 6. 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SCCCQ is also giving away 100 trees this fall to residents of Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona, who can pick one up and bring it to the workshop to learn how to plant it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/greening-queens-tree-planting-demonstration-51966/", "official_url": "https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/greening-queens-tree-planting-demonstration/", "image": ""}, {"title": "DURATIONS: Triple Canopy presents Civic Crash Course with Chloë Bass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Hal Foster", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Public Records", "address": "Butler Street 233, 11217", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society"], "description": "An evening talk titled 'Civic Crash Course', presented by Triple Canopy as part of the DURATIONS series. It features Chloë Bass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and Hal Foster and takes place at Public Records in Brooklyn. 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It features Janette Sadik-Khan of Bloomberg Associates, former NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner, and special musical guest Pondless, the urbanist synth-pop sensation. The event is organized by Urban Policy & Planning at Hunter College and is open to everyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-war-on-cars-live-66611/", "official_url": "https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/event/the-war-on-cars-live/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3abd4a94b11ce980d9081b4599aaf308e62dca7808dab1d2498eb896e2dfa4c4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Beryl Satter, Prof. of History, Rutgers University – “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods”", "start": "2026-11-09T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/civil-rights-movement"], "description": "A talk titled “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods.” Beryl Satter, Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University, will discuss her new book, Cash on the Block, published by Harvard University Press (2026); she is also the author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, which won several prestigious awards. The CLUE event is co-sponsored by the CSI Student Pre-Law Club, the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Department of Sociology/Anthropology. It takes place at the College of Staten Island, 2800 Victory Boulevard, in the Williamson Theatre, building 1P.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beryl-satter-prof-of-history-rutgers-university-cash-on-the-52048/", "official_url": "https://www.csi.cuny.edu/beryl-satter-prof-history-rutgers-university-cash-block-broken-promise-reinvestment-black-urban-neighborhoods", "image": ""}, {"title": "We Can’t Dream Alone", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/climate"], "description": "\"We Can't Dream Alone\" is an outdoor exhibit of four large-scale reproductions of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Madjeen Isaac, installed along the Washington Avenue perimeter of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is presented by the Climate Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future. Her lush urban environments invite viewers to consider how relationships to place and community make us more resilient to personal adversities, social injustice, and climate change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/we-cant-dream-alone-51528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70d11ab6a4a07e86689b012238344a8772a6837ca0ae172be5094258be60eeb7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Future of Corrections in New York City", "start": "2026-11-12T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "John Jay College of Criminal Justice", "address": "524 West 59th Street, L.64.00 New Building, New York, NY 10019", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-corrections-in-new-york-city-tickets-2003711711668?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/prisons"], "description": "A conversation in the Leaders of Justice Series at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. NYC Department of Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards speaks with John Jay President Karol V. Mason about the future of corrections in New York City. Refreshments will be served, and the talk is cosponsored by the Office of External Affairs, the Future of Public Safety Initiative, and CEEDS. The event is described as non-partisan and educational, with views expressed being those of the speakers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-future-of-corrections-in-new-york-city-79236/", "official_url": "https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-events/events/future-corrections-new-york-city", "image": ""}]}