The City’s new-mom community suffered a major blow when educational center Realbirth canceled all of its classes and closed up shop at the end of June. Fortunately Tribeca Pediatrics founder Dr. Michel Cohen was quick to scoop up the program’s best teachers and establish a new parent resource of his own: Tribeca Parenting.

Greenproofing is the new babyproofing. More and more, New York moms are hiring green experts to make their homes as eco-friendly as possible before baby arrives. In honor of Earth Day, we’ve rounded up some great local services that will test your air, overhaul your cleaning supplies, and ensure you’re conserving energy properly

Eighty-degree weather in April has most of us baring shoulders and, gulp, arms and legs waaaay sooner than we had planned. Here are three outdoor workouts intended to help new moms get toned fast.

We love Kelly Rutherford as UES socialite Lily van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl (and of course we adored her as heart-of-gold Megan Lewis Mancini on Melrose Place, back in the day). But what really impresses us is the way Rutherford passionately advocates raising city kids eco-consciously. During a recent chat in New York, Rutherford told StrollerTraffic how she manages green living in the concrete jungle with her two young children, three-year-old Hermes (whose namesake is, yes, her favorite designer label), and Helena, aged 9 months.