News and Announcements

Visit your local farmers market to find:

•  Tomatoes
• Strawberries
•  Cherries
•  Cucumbers
•  Peppers
•  Lettuce

See our map of market locations: http://on.nyc.gov/farmersmarket

Children who use social media report higher rates of anxiety (16%) compared to those who don’t (12%). Parents: Our guide can help you learn how to reduce the harm social media has on your kids and promote safe social media use. Download it here: http://on.nyc.gov/parentguide

Events ,Exhibitions, and Places to Visit

• The NYC Pride Parade is Sunday, June 29, 2025! The NYC Pride March is among the largest LGBTQIA+ civil rights demonstrations in the world. The parade starts at 26th St. & 5th Ave. and will disperse at 15th St. & 7th Ave.
  • The main parade takes place in Manhattan, but there are celebrations in every borough: check out 
  • The Bronx Pride Festival (Saturday, June 21),
  •  Brooklyn Pride (Saturday, June 14), 
  • New Queens Pride (Sunday, June 1), and Staten Island PrideFest (Saturday, May 31) for more information about when and where you can celebrate close to home.
• NYC Pride is also hosting Youth Pride an annual event that provides a safe and inclusive space for young people to freely express themselves, on Saturday, June 28 in the South Street Seaport Historic District (Pier 16 and 17) at 12 PM.
• Check out their events calendar. for more information about this and other events taking place throughout the month!
• The New York Public Library is celebrating Pride Month throughout June. Check their site for family-friendly events, including film screenings, arts & crafts sessions, book clubs, and more, happening at a branch near you, all month long.
• Many LGBTQ+ pioneers have called New York City home over the years, and you can visit places across all five boroughs where those history-makers lived, worked, and are honored today—like Christopher Street Park across from the Stonewall Inn, the Alice Austen House in Staten Island, or the public murals painted by the artist Keith Haring. For more information about these sites and many others, check out the NYC Parks website. For events taking place throughout June at NYC Parks, see the NYC Parks Pride Month events calendar.
• The Village Preservation Society has created the Civil Rights and Social Justice Map as a guide to LGBTQ+ history in Greenwich Village and the surrounding areas that shows where these sites are located, and provides more information about why each of them is significant to the movement. For even more sites across all five boroughs, check out the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project,which has indexed over 400 historically significant locations throughout the city.

The vast majority of Medicaid recipients in New York State are children and the elderly. Cuts to the program will hit the most vulnerable hardest, and less access to health care will make the overall population less healthy and safe. 

 The newly published Know Your Period: The NYC Student Guide provides students with information about different types of period products. Read the guide to learn more.

 

Know Your Period: The NYC Student Guide: http://on.nyc.gov/StudentPeriodGuide…  Learn more about one of NYC’s menstrual equity laws:  http://intro.nyc/local-laws/2024-9

Talk to your pediatrician to make sure your children have all recommended vaccinations, including an extra MMR dose for infants aged 6-11 months to prevent measles! Learn more: http://on.nyc.gov/measles

Get your GED while earning college credits. Classes are online and in-person. For the application and more information, visit: https://on.nyc.gov/DCAS-EPIC-web

The NYC Student Period Guide informs and empowers students in every borough. The guide answers questions about puberty and menstruation. It reminds students that free period products are available in restrooms at school.

 

As they grow up, students can return to the guide year after year, as a supplement to lessons taught in their Health Education classes. Educators, families, nurses, counselors, and other adults who support students can use this guide as a resource. It is printable and available in 12 languages.

 

This guide was created by New York City Public Schools and the New York City Commission on Gender Equity. It was last updated in September 2024.

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