If you notice some extra greenery in the city, then you have Woolly Pocket to thank. This week they've been setting up surprise pop-up gardens all over the place. They'll keep planting all summer, but this week they've already hit up West Houston and 6th Street, Broadway and Prince, Bleecker and Jane, and 14th Street and 9th Avenue (the Bleecker garden is pictured in the first two shots above). more ›

The worldwide Guerrilla Gardening movement has been around in some form for quite a while, in New York the Green Guerillas even took over a vacant lot on Bowery in the 70s. Since then some residents of the city have been embracing the idea of secretly beautifying the landscape and beginning their own guerrilla groups here. There's solo mission seed bombings and joining community tilling troupes like Bushwick's Trees Not Trash...but what about the more "illicit cultivation," the more underground nocturnal planting. more ›

Hallo Berlin Express: A weird name and a weirder awning, but sometimes good food comes in weird packages (consider Masala Munch.) This new 30-seat joint on 9th Avenue near 50th Street is the sister of the bigger German eatery Hallo Berlin. Eating in Translation stuck his beak in when they opened this week, and walked away full of schnitzel, spaetzle, soup, and cucumber salad. more ›