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Prospect Park receives $10M endowment to support Brooklyn’s only forest

By Kirstyn Brendlen

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Fall Harvest Festival

Arts & Entertainment

Brooklyn Botanic Garden embraces autumn at Fall Harvest Fest on Oct. 25

By Olivia Seaman

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News

‘A vibrant celebration’: United Lenape Pow Wow returns to Prospect Park after decades away

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Greenpoint

Locals split over proposed mixed-use development, Monitor Point, near Bushwick Inlet Park

By Kirstyn Brendlen

fort greene park

Judge tosses lawsuit against planned Fort Greene Park overhaul, citing ‘significant’ long-term benefits

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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City opens ‘mini forest’ filled with native trees and grasses on Williamsburg waterfront

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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News

Grand Army Plaza Arch emerges from two-year, $8.9M restoration

By Adam Daly

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Rooted in time: Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates 100 years of bonsai

By Regina Martinez

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News

Former NYC deputy mayor Meera Joshi named president of Green-Wood Cemetery

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Sun and surf return as Brooklyn’s beaches open for swimming on May 24

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Bedford-Stuyvesant

Flower Bed-Stuy celebrates 15 years of neighborhood beautification and civic pride

By Paul Frangipane & Kirstyn Brendlen

prospect park monuments to motherhood sculpture

Arts & Entertainment

New Prospect Park sculpture ‘Monuments to Motherhood’ celebrates caregivers

By Gabriele Holtermann

chi ossé park funding rally

Bedford-Stuyvesant

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

By Gabriele Holtermann

fort greene park

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

By Kirstyn Brendlen

NY: Bee Hive Installation

Park Slope

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

By Gabriele Holtermann

green-wood cemetery

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

By Lauren Rapp

brooklyn botanic garden pandemic memorial

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

By Lauren Rapp

marine park brush fire

Brooklyn parks scorched by brush fires work toward recovery, resiliency

By Kirstyn Brendlen

mulchfest 2024 woman with christmas tree

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

By Kirstyn Brendlen

poetica coffee cart prospect park

Poetica Coffee rolls into Prospect Park with new mobile coffee cart

By Lauren Rapp

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New York Family

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Karine Silva, who says she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein at 17, with her attorney Jordan Merson at City Hall Park prior to the vote on legislation reopening civil-claims windows for survivors.

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