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NATIONAL ADOPTION REUNION WITH GAVIN DeGRAW

Gavin DeGraw will be hanging out in Central Park with the animals on October 4, looking to set a Guinness World Record

Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park
Tuesday, October 4, free, 4:00 – 6:30
www.animalalliancenyc.org
www.gavindegraw.com

Gavin DeGraw isn’t about to let the awful attack he suffered in August in the East Village keep him down. The New York-based singer-songwriter behind such singles as “In Love with a Girl,” “We Belong Together,” and “I Don’t Want to Be” and such albums as Chariot (2003), Free (2009), and his latest, Sweeter (RCA, September 2011), is about to set off on a U.S. tour, but first he’ll be playing a free show October 4 at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. The performance is part of Petco’s National Adoption Reunion, which is attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the Largest Gathering of Adopted Shelter Animals, currently at 250. To participate, just bring your pet (dogs must be on a leash, cats, rabbits, and other animals in a carrier) and proof of adoption from a shelter or rescue organization (the animal cannot have been purchased from a pet store or breeder) to the park at 4:00. There will also be dogs available for adoption on-site. National Adoption Reunion is the centerpiece of the third annual New York Week for the Animals, cosponsored by the Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals and which also includes such upcoming events as the New York Audubon Evening Autumn Migration Walk, a birding tour of Bryant Park, the workshop “Trap-Neuter-Return: How to Manage a Feral Cat Colony,” a Dogs Have Angels Too book signing and adoption with Sara Cavallaro, the second annual Anjellicle Cats Rescue Catbaret, the Pup Parade & Blessing of Animals for Veterans, a Creepy Creatures Weekend at the New York Botanical Garden, the second annual 5K Run for the Horses, and other special activities and adoption clinics through October 9.

THE HOLIDAY TRAIN SHOW 2010

The Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden includes Hellgate Bridge and other thoroughfares (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Pkwy at Fordham Rd.
Through January 9 (closed Monday)
Timed tickets: $10-$15 children two to twelve, $20-$25 adults
718-817-8700

2009 flickr slideshow
www.appliedimagination.biz
www.nybg.org

Back for its nineteenth year, the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden is a spectacular display that must be seen to be believed. Designed by Paul Busse and Applied Imagination, the show spreads through much of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, with the trains gliding past classic New York City architecture both current and no longer standing, including such familiar sites as the Flatiron Building, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty, Grand Central Terminal, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, City Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Radio City Music Hall, the UN, Yankee Stadium, the original Pennsylvania Station, and the Apollo as well as Roosevelt Island, Kykuit, the Bartow-Pell Mansion, the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, the Jewish Museum, Lefferts Historic House, the JFK TWA Flight Center (new for 2010), and some 125 or so more. (The structures aren’t built to scale or arranged geographically, so the sticklers among you might be a little annoyed, but just let it ride.) Trains also cross the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, George Washington, and Hell Gate Bridges overhead while also disappearing into tunnels and behind trees and plants. The bridges and buildings are constructed using natural, organic materials, from pomegranate and honey locust thorn and black cherry wood to eucalyptus pods and hemlock cones, from honeysuckle twigs and tree sap to shelf fungus, reeds, casting resin, and beechnut husks. (Be sure to get up close to see all of the intricate design work, and pay special attention to the Guggenheim.)

Trains pass by classic New York landmarks at botanical garden show (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Timed tickets also include admission to Gingerbread Adventures in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden and the “Tootle the Train” show in the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall; we highly suggest you schedule your visit to the NYBG — which is ridiculously easy to get to, just twenty minutes on Metro-North, with the stop right across the street from the entrance — during one of those two shows, as the conservatory will thin out just a bit, but when they let out, watch out for the crowds.

HALLOWEEN HOORAH

World’s heaviest pumpkin will be carved this weekend at the New York Botanical Garden

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Pkwy at Fordham Rd.
October 29-31, free – $6
www.nybg.org

This weekend, expert carver Scott Cully will take his knife to the world’s heaviest pumpkin at the New York Botanical Garden. Grown in Wisconsin by Chris Stevens, the gynormous gourd weighs in at 1,810 1/2 pounds. The garden is also currently home to Michigan grower Ken Sweet’s 1,725 pounder and Massachusetts farmer Steve Connolly’s 1,674 1/2 monster. Stevens’s and Sweet’s pumpkins are actually siblings, grown from seeds from the same parent. Also this weekend, the NYBG wraps up its three-week Halloween Hoorah with a slate of activities in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, including ghostly leaf rubbing, creepy crawly critter exploration, apple cider pressing, sensational seed sorting, the pumpkin playhouse, and Halloween parades.

HOLIDAY TRAIN SHOW



NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN HOLIDAY TRAIN SHOW
Bronx River Pkwy at Fordham Rd.
Through January 10 (closed Monday)
Timed tickets: $10-$15 children two to twelve, $20-$25 adults
718-817-8700
www.nybg.org
flickr slideshow
www.appliedimagination.biz

Back for its eighteenth year, the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden is a spectacular display that must be seen to be believed. Designed by Paul Busse and Applied Imagination, the show spreads through much of the Enid Haupt Conservatory, with the trains gliding past classic New York City architecture both current and no longer standing, including such familiar sites as the Flatiron Building, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty, Grand Central Terminal, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, City Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Radio City Music Hall, the UN, Yankee Stadium, and the Apollo as well as Roosevelt Island, Kykuit, the Bartow-Pell Mansion, the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, the Jewish Museum, Lefferts Historic House, and some 125 or so more. (The structures aren’t built to scale or arranged geographically, so the sticklers among you might be a little annoyed, but just let it ride.) This year’s new entries are the original Pennsylvania Station and the Brooks Brothers Flagship store. Trains also cross the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, George Washington, and Hell Gate Bridges overhead while also disappearing into tunnels and behind trees and plants. The bridges and buildings are constructed using natural, organic materials, from pomegranate and honey locust thorn and black cherry wood to eucalyptus pods and hemlock cones, from honeysuckle twigs and tree sap to shelf fungus, reeds, casting resin, and beechnut husks. (Be sure to get up close to see all of the intricate design work, and pay special attention to the Guggenheim.)

Spectacular bridges hover above at Bronx train show (Photo by Mark Rifkin/twi-ny)

Spectacular bridges hover above at Bronx train show (Photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Timed tickets also include admission to Gingerbread Adventures in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden and “The Little Engine That Could” puppet show in the Arthur and Janet Ross Lecture Hall; we highly suggest you schedule your visit to the NYBG – which is ridiculously easy to get to, just twenty minutes on Metro-North, with the stop right across the street from the entrance – during one of those two shows, as the conservatory will thin out just a bit, but when they let out, watch out for the crowds.