GrowNYC Archives - Harlem World Magazine

NYC Health + Hospitals Expand Access To Affordable Healthy Food Options With Annual Farmers Market

NYC Health + Hospitals today announced its 2021 schedule for farmer's markets hosted at public hospitals and community health centers across the city.Continue reading

Officials, Electeds, And Stakeholders Cheer Ribbon Cutting For Harlem’s New Pedestrian Plaza

East 125th Street Pedestrian Plaza Brings Needed Outdoor Space to the Harlem Community.Continue reading

Farmers Market Expand Access To Affordable, Healthy Food Options For Patients And Staff

NYC Health + Hospitals today announced its 2020 schedule for farmers markets hosted at public hospitals and community health centers across the city.Continue reading

de Blasio Announces Details Of Major Citi Bike Expansion From Harlem To Hollis

The de Blasio Administration joined Lyft to today announce the boundaries of the planned expansion of Citi Bike over the next five years, which will bring the nation’s largest bike share system to a larger and more economically diverse range of communities.Continue reading

Nice, New Harlem Post-Rikers Re-Entry Education Center Opens (Photographs)

GOSO staff members and clients were joined by community leaders, partner organizations, and education stakeholders for the grand opening of the GOSO Education Center at 1400 Fifth Avenue, Harlem, New York.Continue reading

Handy Tips For A Sustainable Holiday In Harlem

Making a list of how to green your Harlem holidays? Here are some of our friends at GrowNYC favorite tips and events to cure the post-holiday blues.Continue reading

Fresh Start Back To School From Harlem To Hollis

GrowNYC wants us to resist the pull of P and J's (peanut butter and jelly) or M and C's (mac & cheese) sandwiches.

Brewer Announces Return Of Fresh Food For Seniors For 2017 From Harlem To Houston

Today, Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer announced the relaunch of her Fresh Food for Seniors program for 2017, which will operate through November, 2017.Continue reading

GrowNYC Launches Compost On-the-Go Commuter Food Scrap Collections Uptown

GrowNYC announces Compost On-the-Go at 18 new food scrap collections, conveniently located near mass transit in Northern Manhattan and and the Bronx in partnership with the NYC Department of Sanitation. Continue reading

GrowNYC Sugar Hill Greenmarket Coming To Harlem

This brand new Saturday market offers residents of Harlem a weekend shopping destination for fresh fruits and vegetables, bread and baked goods, honey and other farm-fresh products. Continue reading

Public Health System Hosts Farmers Markets In Harlem And Others Locations

NYC Health + Hospitals continues its commitment to addressing social determinants of health in New York City by increasing access to fresh and affordable produce. Continue reading

Harlem Fave GrowNYC is Hiring!

Love what we do, and want to be part of it? If the answer is yes, then grow with GrowNYC who has a number of full- and part-time job openings from volunteer to job positions. Continue reading

NYCHA Environmental Ambassadors Teach NYCHA Residents To Recycle

As the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) rolls out recycling for more than 400,000 residents from Harlem to Hollis, GrowNYC is gearing up to train NYCHA residents to become Environmental Ambassadors who encourage their neighbors to participate in the NYCHA Recycles! program. Continue reading

Calling All Harlem Artists: GrowNYC Contest

Here's a great opp sent to us by the folks at Grow NYC: Grow NYC is looking for artists from Harlem to Hollis to channel their inner environmentalist and create a two-dimensional work of art inspired by GrowNYC's work in NYC: think Greenmarkets, gardens, recycling, compost, habitat, ecosystems and more. Continue reading