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Parks limits swimming sections in Brooklyn beaches due to lifeguard shortage

By Jada Camille

The Lefferts Historic House reopened on May 19 following million dollar renovation project.

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Lefferts Historic House reopens after $2.5 million dollar renovation

By Jada Camille

The Prospect Park Alliance lead renovation project on the park's famous Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch.

Under construction: Prospect Park Alliance lead restoration project of Grand Army Plaza arch

By Jada Camille

We're all in this together- Bay Ridge environmental groups teamed up to beautify a local park on Earth Day.

Acts of kindness: Brooklynites celebrate Earth Day with spring clean up events

By Jada Camille

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Celebrate Earth Day in Brooklyn with parties, projects and more

By Jada Camille

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‘Beautifying our planet can begin right here at home’: Bay Ridge Cares plans Earth Day park clean-up

By Isabel Song Beer 1

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Spring has sprung in Brooklyn: A guide to cherry blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and across the borough

By Ximena Del Cerro

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Parks begins ‘much needed’ $7M facelift at Dyker Beach Park

By Jada Camille

Bikers and pedestrians on Prospect Park Drive in Brooklyn.

Prospect Park Alliance releases study results for Park Drive safety improvements

By Isabel Song Beer

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Applications for $25,000 grants to upgrade youth community spaces are open

By Ximena Del Cerro

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Downtown

Cafe in the cards for Cadman Plaza Park in Downtown Brooklyn

By Anna Bradley-Smith 2

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Nearly a dozen of Brooklyn’s community gardens were renovated and expanded this year: Parks

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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Officials unveil designs for new Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in East Flatbush

By Meaghan McGoldrick & Ben Brachfeld

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DUMBO

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy hosts record-breaking Black Tie Ball

By Meaghan McGoldrick

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Marsha P. Johnson Park to get new ‘ornamental gateway’ to cap off renovations, honor park’s namesake

By Kirstyn Brendlen

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‘The essence of resilience’: Crown Heights block named Greenest Block in Brooklyn

By Anna Bradley-Smith

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Makyyla Holland, 25, filed a lawsuit that prompted the Broome County Jail to implement policies for the treatment of LGBTQ people in custody.

Advocates renew push to protect incarcerated trans people in New York

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Consul General to the United States Rondy "Luta" McIntosh, center, receives plague, on behalf of Vincentian Prime Minister Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves, from Dr. Ken Irish-Bramble, to McIntosh's left, chair of Brooklyn's Medgar Evers College's (MEC) Caribbean Research Center, in June 2023 in commemorating Caribbean-American History Month at MEC. Others in photo from left: Horace Davis, president of Caribbean-American Society of New York; MEC Provost Dr. Antoinette Coleman; Sherrill-Ann Mason-Haywood, director of MEC's Seek Program; Dr. Evelyn Castro, senior advisor to MEC President Dr. Patricia Ramsey; and Anna Walker, representative of the Caribbean-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI).

SVG Diaspora Committee of NY head ‘very happy’ about call for greater youth engagement

Dining with Santa on Long Island 2023

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Dining with Santa on Long Island 2023

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Bo Horvat laying roots of trademark leadership within Islanders’ foundation: ‘Accountability is such a big thing’