Look at these apple green taxis!
Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky unveiled the official color of the new boro taxis: apple green.
According to Mayor Bloomberg:
For decades, the goal of bringing better taxi service to residents and visitors outside of Manhattan eluded the city…With our legislation to bring taxi service outside of Manhattan becoming law, at long last New Yorkers in all five boroughs will have safe, comfortable, less costly and legal street hail service as Apple Green Boro Taxis will begin appearing on our streets. The new Apple Green vehicles will bring thousands of hard-working livery drivers out of the shadows and into the legal economy, increase transportation options for those in need of accessible vehicles and, put simply, will bring more basic fairness to our transportation system.
Source: nycgov
Pick up a free tree and learn how to care for it at Urban Garden Center at La Marqueta, East Harlem on Sunday morning, May 6th as part of MillionTreesNYC and New York Restoration Project’s Manhattan Tree Giveaway. Urban Garden Center will also celebrate its one-year anniversary at La Marqueta that weekend!
Also stop by CB2’s DIY Saturdays at their Manhattan locations, where Urban Garden Center will teach you to create edgy flower arrangements and answer any garden questions you have as we enter the spring planting season. They will be at the Soho and Eastside stores April 28th and May 5th from 2-4pm.
Discover more about La Marqueta, a historic community marketplace nestled in East Harlem and one of the City’s public markets.
