Planting Fields unveils its one-acre Piet Oudolf Garden Saturday, plus a Fiona Tan art installation on the East Lawn.

A juvenile humpback surfaced mid-lunge and struck a boat off Suffolk County — days after two whales got stuck on Fire Island sandbars.

Two rare Wollemi pines, a species presumed gone for two million years, now grow inside Planting Fields' greenhouses in Oyster Bay.

The WPA-era rec center once hosted Knicks practices and now has new stairs, lockers and a fire alarm system.

Coast Guard crews sprayed water on a stranded whale near Saltaire to keep it from drying out until the sea let it go.

Phoenix Community Garden grows nearly 2,000 pounds of food a year for Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighbors.

Residents near West 76th Street first heard its raspy scream in early September — and the sightings haven't stopped since.

A raccoon strolled into St. Joseph's Church during a candlelit night mass, days before the Feast of St. Francis. The pastor hopes it was a one-time visit.

The Wildlife Conservation Society and New York Restoration Project are putting hybrid chestnuts back where the tree-killing blight was first spotted in 1904.

P.S. 69's new green schoolyard opens to the public after school hours in a neighborhood ranked 182nd out of 198 for open space.

News 12 got an exclusive first look at the Bronx's only indoor pool, ADA elevator, and new lobby before the center's 75th anniversary.

P.S. 146X in Mott Haven now has a green playground built to soak up rainwater before it floods nearby streets.

A native plant sanctuary at a former Navy burial ground just earned international botanic garden status.