{"id":21800,"date":"2011-05-13T12:48:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=21800"},"modified":"2019-06-25T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:45:07","slug":"nyc-wildflower-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/21800\/nyc-wildflower-week\/","title":{"rendered":"oM Weekend Agenda: Wildflower Week, Food Festivals, Free Kayaking Season Opens, Kid Adventures, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Wildflower Week 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nycwildflowerweek.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NYC Wildflower Week festivities end this Sunday.<\/a> [theskint]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Habana Outpost Block Party\" href=\"http:\/\/cafehabanablog.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Habana Outpost throws a block party on Saturday.<\/a> [NYT]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Downtown Boathouse&#8217;s first day of free kayaking on the Hudson River begins this Saturday.  [DowntownBoathouse]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lomography adventures continue on the Staten Island Ferry this Saturday afternoon. Tickets for the Hudson River camera class cruise cost $20 and can be purchased by calling 212.260.0240. [Lomo]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Rooftop Films 2011\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2011\/05\/12\/rooftop-films-nyc-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Rooftop Films Summer Series starts tonight<\/a>. [oM]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take a free tour of the Little Red Lighthouse on Saturday afternoon. (It feels like you&#8217;re off Manhattan.) [NewYorkology]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a jump start on National Great Outdoors Month\u00a0at the\u00a0Mountain Laurel\u00a0Outdoor Rec Fest on Sunday and enjoy activities like\u00a0songbird watching, canoeing, geocaching, and high ropes climbing in Fahnestock\u00a0Memorial State Park. Take Metro North to Cold Spring, then call 845.265.TAXI for a quick ride to the park. Adults\/$2, Kids\/$1 [NYSParks]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Food festivals near nyc\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2011\/04\/07\/spring-food-festivals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia&#8217;s Italian Market Festival and National Harbor&#8217;s Wine and Food Festival are this Sunday.<\/a> [oM]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring the kids (8+) to Maple Grove in the Hudson Valley for an astronomical adventure on Saturday night. [MapleGrove]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Scandinavian Museum&#8217;s Viking Fest 2011 is being held this Saturday at Owl&#8217;s Head Park in Bay Ridge and will present live music, vendors, performances, storytelling, and a Viking ship; admission is free. [ScandinavianMusem]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Brooklyn Bike Jumble 2011\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2011\/04\/22\/free-outdoor-events-nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Brooklyn Bike Jumble is this Saturday.<\/a> [oM]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy of BBG<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC Wildflower Week festivities end this Sunday. [theskint] Habana Outpost throws a block party on Saturday. [NYT] The Downtown Boathouse&#8217;s first day of free kayaking on the Hudson River begins this Saturday. [DowntownBoathouse] The Lomography adventures continue on the Staten Island Ferry this Saturday afternoon. Tickets for the Hudson River camera class cruise cost $20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":21810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,325],"tags":[238,177,640,207,120,142,254,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-21800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"category-new-york","9":"tag-adventure","10":"tag-bike","11":"tag-canoeing","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-family-fun","14":"tag-festival","15":"tag-free","16":"tag-outdoors"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":21810,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5716321992_69a9028c14-300x225.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}