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Arts & Entertainment

New Prospect Park sculpture ‘Monuments to Motherhood’ celebrates caregivers

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Bedford-Stuyvesant

Chi Ossé and park advocates call for more funding of New York City’s green spaces

By Gabriele Holtermann

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To tree, or not to tree? Advocates, city continue legal battle over Fort Greene Park revamp

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Park Slope

Bees in the big city: Park Slope residents install rooftop hive with 12,000 honey bees

By Gabriele Holtermann

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Life and death in Green-Wood Cemetery: Rewilding project revives native flora and fauna

By Lauren Rapp

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Musical composition honoring pandemic loss to be played every hour at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

By Lauren Rapp

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Brooklyn parks scorched by brush fires work toward recovery, resiliency

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Bye, bye, balsam: Say goodbye to your Christmas trees in style at Mulchfest 2024

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Poetica Coffee rolls into Prospect Park with new mobile coffee cart

By Lauren Rapp

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After fire, Prospect Park will take ‘many seasons’ to recover and prepare for future droughts

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Great moments in tree-story: Parks Department adds 17 local legends to list of ‘Great Trees of New York City’

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Greenpoint

Demolition underway at CitiStorage site as city works toward completing Bushwick Inlet Park

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Clearing the air: 1,500 new trees at Green-Wood Cemetery will filter greenhouse gases, fight climate change

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Greenpoint

City brings Bedford Slip pedestrian plaza to Greenpoint for 6 weeks, locals push for more

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Seventh annual Jamaica Bay Festival to bring Brooklynites closer to nature on July 13

By Natalie Dahan

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Red Hook

‘If you build it, they will skate’: New skate park opens at Red Hook’s Harold Ickes Playground

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Summer gets sweeter as Purslane Cafe opens at Prospect Park boathouse

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Summer is here, and so is Brooklyn Paper’s Beach Vibe Guide

By Kirstyn Brendlen & Gabriele Holtermann

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Downtown

History-making: Abolitionist Place Park opens in Downtown Brooklyn after 20-year journey

By Anna Bradley-Smith

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Insect infrastructure: ‘Bee hotels’ to provide refuge for pollinators in Brooklyn pedestrian plazas

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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