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Posted inFeatured News

New Prospect Park Exhibit Takes Visitors on a Journey Into What Life Sounds Like … Underground

by Jessy Edwards May 26, 2022May 27, 2022

Underground, the lightest footstep is heard like a drum. If a leaf falls, it sounds like a crash. And a snowflake? “It’s like a thud,” Brooklyn-based artist Nikki Lindt told […]

Posted inFeatured News

BK Parks Advocates Urge Mayor to Make Good on Campaign Promise of 1% of NYC Budget for Parks

by Jessy Edwards May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Construction has begun at the Saratoga Park playground in Bed Stuy. Photo: Miranda Levingston for the BK Reader.
Posted inHealth & Wellness

Here’s What Saratoga Park’s New $2.1M Makeover Will Look Like

by Miranda Levingston February 8, 2022February 22, 2022
Movies under the Stars in Fort Greene Park
Posted inArts & Entertainment

Movies Under the Stars Brighten Brooklyn Parks

by Brooklyn Reader July 7, 2021July 7, 2021
Posted inNon-Profit & Community

Brooklyn Playground Renamed for FDNY-EMT Who Was Killed in the Line of Duty

by Brooklyn Reader May 27, 2021
Posted inPolitics

NYC Parks Need Vision, Investment and Equity Planning, Advocates Say

by Anna Bradley-Smith April 2, 2021April 2, 2021
Posted inLifestyle & Culture

NYC Parks Is Asking New Yorkers to Submit the Names of Black Americans as it Renames City Spaces

by Brooklyn Reader March 3, 2021March 3, 2021
Posted inLifestyle & Culture

Should the Revamped Cuyler Gore Park Include a Dog Run?

by Jackson Ferrari Ibelle January 14, 2021January 15, 2021
NYC Parks; COVID-19; Prospect Park; Litter
Posted inNon-Profit & Community, Prospect Heights

Record Amounts of Trash Cover Prospect Park

by Kimberlean Donis August 10, 2020January 28, 2021
Posted inFeatured News

Freedom Food: Bushwick Garden Feeds Its Neighborhood Through Pandemic

by Jessy Edwards August 3, 2020April 3, 2022
Brooklynites can cool down at eight different public pools in Bushwick, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East Flatbush and Fort Greene.
Posted inFeatured News

Brooklyn’s Public Pools Are Officially Open!

by Andrea Leonhardt June 27, 2019January 28, 2021
Bed-Stuy's Hattie Carthan Community Garden is spring ready with new garden beds, plants, benches, picnic tables and a mural!
Posted inFeatured News

Tracy Morgan Joins Bed-Stuy to Celebrate Revamped Hattie Carthan Garden

by Andrea Leonhardt April 1, 2019January 28, 2021
Betsy Head Park will get a full makeover complete with new basketball courts, a teen fitness parkour, a skate park and more.
Posted inFeatured News

City Breaks Ground on $30M Betsy Head Park Reconstruction

by Andrea Leonhardt March 20, 2019January 28, 2021
It's time to let you go of your Christmas tree and to "treecycle" it.
Posted inBedford Stuyvesant

Bid Your Christmas Tree ‘Fir-Well’ at the Annual Mulchfest

by Andrea Leonhardt January 2, 2019January 28, 2021
Betsy Head Park will undergo a major revamp over the next two years.
Posted inLifestyle & Culture

Betsy Head Park’s $30M Overhaul to Begin in November

by Andrea Leonhardt October 4, 2018January 28, 2021

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