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Amid crumbling buildings and empty lots, small farms have sprung up in the city. Some farmers buy up abandoned space for planting, while others have simply repurposed city land. Local produce businesses have blossomed, but a lack of definitive policies has left some in limbo.

Clarinetist David Krakauer is known as both a classical virtuoso and a hard-rocking player of klezmer, the instrumental music of East European Jewry. His new band, a 10-member group called Abraham, Inc., has audiences dancing in the aisles and features legendary trombonist Fred Wesley Jr. and beat architect DJ Socalled.

At the Bamboo Bike Studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., cycling enthusiasts can assemble their own bikes from scratch in just one weekend. Bike building classes are full until April, but the studio's owners say they don't want the bamboo bike frames to be just another fad.

Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman compares Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot to some of the giants of opera. Helfgot is the chief cantor at Manhattan's Park East Synagogue and has sung at the Metropolitan Opera. Now he and Perlman have recorded an album together that goes back to a time when cantors were opera stars. Jon Kalish reports.

Volunteers in New York City are conducting bedroom makeovers for young men and women with disabilities. Blissful Bedrooms is a nonprofit organization that is committed to helping those with limited mobility achieve the room of their dreams.

Fred Katz wrote for film in Hollywood, accompanied Harpo Marx on piano and taught college anthropology, all as a high-school dropout. But that was after he played with the Chico Hamilton quintet — and brought the cello into modern jazz.

Andy Statman made a musical name for himself as a pioneer of progressive bluegrass. But his eclectic approach to recording and performing has often kept his music from the public. But two new CDs are on their way to the market.

Manufacturing is increasingly being done with robotic power tools that cost tens of thousands of dollars. They're known as CNC or computer-numerical-control machines. A California company is making low-cost CNC machines that will help in the classroom.

Started in 2009, Night Markets use rented box trucks to create a cluster of outlandish art installations and performance venues that last just 24 hours. With attractions ranging from smash trucks to singalongs, they bring a feast of the unlikely and unseen to even the wildest of imaginations.

A new, free, searchable public database allows Holocaust survivors and their heirs to look for more than 20,000 artworks, furniture and other objects stolen by the Nazis in France and Belgium during World War II. It's the first such database to digitize and make available original German records and the subsequent French records of what happened to the objects and art.