A Fall Harvest Weekend in New York, After a Hard Year for Farmers
A Brooklyn harvest festival, a Queens corn maze, the Union Square Greenmarket and apple picking: how to spend a fall weekend near NYC in a year the frost hit farms hard.
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A Brooklyn harvest festival, a Queens corn maze, the Union Square Greenmarket and apple picking: how to spend a fall weekend near NYC in a year the frost hit farms hard.
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