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Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods of mid-spring. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding great quantities of renewable ingredients: Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard, hot hedge mustard, and even hotter poor man's pepper, will abound on lawns or under trees anywhere,...

Key Points about this Tour: 2.75 hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. Private elegant tables assigned to each booking. Each features cushioned section, a large exterior window and plexiglass dividers. Offered aboard Manhattan or Manhattan II (1920s inspired yachts) Capacity limitations will...

Key Points about this tour: 2 Hours Price is per person. Maximum of 3 ticket purchase. Aboard ADIRONDACK - inspired by the pilot schooners of the 1890s Sails past One World Trade Center, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty 80 Feet in length and about 2000 square feet of sail area Great for families who want to sail and see the sights!...

A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms in late summer. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in cultivated areas throughout the park. You can also use this invasive species as a superb root vegetable, or even...

Key points about this tour: 1.5 hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. See all major lower Manhattan sites! Private elegant tables assigned per booking - each protected by Plexiglass dividers, cushioned seating and openable windows. Offered aboard Manhattan or Manhattan II (1920s inspired yachts)...

Key Points about this tour: 2 Hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. Aboard Adirondack - inspired by the pilot schooners of the 1890s Sails past One World Trade Center, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty We ask you to eat before or after your sail. 80 Feet in length and about 2000 square...

Manga If you are familiar with Mario, Hello Kitty, Pikachu, and Rilakkuma, then you can easily understand kawaii characters. In this class in New York City, we will explore Japanese contemporary drawing styles to create Japanese anime characters of our own vision and design. Students will also learn how to make manga (Japanese-style...

Prospect Park provides such a superabundance of wild foods in mid-spring, it's hard to cover them all in just four hours. We begin with spicy hedge mustard, corn-flavored chickweed, and spinach-flavored lamb's quarters, all growing near the park's Grand Army Plaza entrance. Then we move along to goutweed, taking over along the path near the Vale...

Learn about the neighborhood's rich immigrant history and taste the food that makes it famous! Experience the excitement of this quintessentially New York neighborhood while imagining the streets full of the pushcarts that once dominated everyday life. Explore the international food and learn some interesting American history with native New Yorker...

Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods in  early spring. Making a meal with these plants is simple at this time of the year. For an appetizer, try simmering field garlic bulbs in diluted vinegar with Italian seasonings, to make an outstanding pickle. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding...

Key points about this tour: 2.75 Hours Long Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. Private elegant tables assigned per booking - each protected by Plexiglass dividers, cushioned seating and openable windows. Our brunch is a three-course prix fixe menu served at your private table. Offered aboard Manhattan...

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers in late winter. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants. Now is the time for roots. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, as well as an invasive foreign species, abounds in human-disturbed...

Key points about this tour: 1.5 hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. Assigned Private Tables for each booking featuring cushioned seating, plexiglass dividers and openable windows. See all major lower Manhattan sites at Sunset! (One World Trade Center, Financial District, Statue of Liberty,...

NYC neighborhoods are always evolving - it's part of what makes the city so fascinating. Manhattan's East Village is a perfect example of this evolution; from German, Irish immigrant communities, to wealthy landowners, to trend-setting hipsters. Experience the diversity in history, culture, and of course cuisine!  From Peter Stuveysant’s “bouwerie”...

Kabbalah 1 is a paradigm-shifting course that reveals the secrets of kabbalistic teachings, the golden rules you can master if you seek more fulfillment in your life. Kabbalah explains that there is the world that we see (the physical world) and a much larger realm, just as real, that is unseen (the spiritual world). We are souls from the spiritual...