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40 NYC parks where you can barbecue this summer
The unofficial start of the summer season is here and it can only mean one thing: It's time to head to fire up the grill and enjoy the great outdoors.
In Prospect Park, commemorative trees lead to a record-breaking year
More than 40 new trees will be planted in Prospect Park this spring, thanks to donors who seek to honor loved ones
See the top five designs for Shirley Chisholm’s Brooklyn monument
The city is now soliciting feedback on five proposed designs of the forthcoming monument to the trailblazing legislator.
On Fourth Avenue, a condo building inspired by Brooklyn brownstones launches from $1.7M
The proportions of Parlour’s 19 condos motion to local architecture.
What $400,000 buys in NYC right now
See what $400,000 or less buys in neighborhoods like Brooklyn Heights, Sunnyside, and Carnegie Hill.
At last, Prospect Park is permanently car-free
The park’s East Drive has been given over to cyclists and pedestrians
Prospect Park will go permanently car-free next year
After an eight-week-long trial this summer, Prospect Park is making it official: starting January 2, 2018, the park will be permanently car-free.
Scandal-plagued Park Slope senior center might go condo after all
Sugar Hill Capital will test the market to see if there’s any interest in condos at the site.
What $1,450/month gets you in NYC right now
See what $1,450 rents you in neighborhoods like Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Astoria, and East Harlem.
Prospect Park will reopen to vehicular traffic on Monday
The park will welcome vehicular traffic on Monday, after an eight-week car-free trial but some are asking why even bother.
City bid to buy Prospect Park’s endangered horse stables falls apart
The stables owners are entertaining other offers for the site, but the city says it’s still interested.
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15 hidden gems of Prospect Park
One of Brooklyn’s best parks celebrates its 150th birthday this year—to celebrate, explore some of its lesser-known corners.
Prospect Park employs a new set of weed-eating goats
There’s a new herd of goats in town and they’re ready to take on the invasive plants on Prospect Park’s steep Lookout Hill.
These award-winning proposals will tackle the city's public space inequity
The Design Trust for Public Space’s Public for All winners will address need in the city’s public plazas and provide South Bronx residents a forum in the development of underutilized city-owned land.
Prospect Park's verdant Rose Garden is transformed by 7,000 paper pinwheels
The Connective Project, as this piece is known will be a massive installation comprised of 7,000 pinwheels made with weather-resistent, biodegradable paper made from stone dust.
Prospect Park will be completely car-free for two months
Say goodbye to automobiles in the Brooklyn park—for the summer, anyway.
Prospect Park’s endangered horse stables will likely be purchased by the city
Kensington Stables will stay operating if ownership and the city can strike a deal.
Prospect Park's 148-year-old Wellhouse is transformed into a composting restroom
Built in 1869, the structure originally housed the mechanical equipment that helped pump water into the park’s water systems.
Small upgrades shine in this $650,000 Prospect Heights pad
A condo with a spacious bedroom along Grand Army Plaza.
As inventory drops in Brooklyn and Manhattan, resale prices hit a record high
A double-digit drop in sales inventory this April will make for a competitive summer.
Charming Windsor Terrace Victorian with sizable backyard seeks $1.8M
The cedar clapboard house dates back to the 1860s and comes with a backyard that’s deeper than the house itself.
Prospect Park’s for-sale horse stables may get a boost from the city
The city wants to enter into talk to purchase the ailing property, sources say.
Prospect Park’s 150th anniversary celebration kicks off this weekend
The weekend’s celebration will serve as a precursor to the plethora of events the Alliance has planned in the upcoming months.
Locals want to save Prospect Park's endangered horse stables
Community members and officials are demanding that Kensington Stables, a decades-old horse stables that’s due to hit the auction block, remain a horse stable for community use.
First peek inside Park Slope’s incoming Nitehawk Cinema
The overhaul of Park Slope’s crumbling Pavilion theater into Nitehawk, a service-focused cinema that originated in Williamsburg, is imminent. And now, there’s a first look inside the spiffed-up interiors.
Park Slope senior home sale closes, paving way for apartments
Sugar Hill Capital and Haysha Deitsch have closed on the sale of Prospect Park Residence, a senior home on Prospect Park West, for $84M. The building will reportedly undergo a residential conversion.
Weed-eating goats return to work in Prospect Park
After eating themselves out of a job in one month, six of the eight goats tasked with munching on Prospect Park's poisonous invasive plants have returned to work. Weeds do grow back, after all.
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Where to play Pokemon Go in NYC
It should come as no surprise that the Pokemon Go craze that has swept basically everywhere this week is especially strong in New York City.
Captain America will get a statue in his honor in Prospect Park
Brooklyn's got plenty of real-life hometown heroes, sure. But what better "Local boy makes good" story is there than the one about Steve Rogers, a scrawny kid from Kings County who grew up to become Captain America?
Prospect Park's weed-eating goats get early retirement
After proving to be too good at their job, the goats will return to their farm upstate and likely be brought back to Prospect Park in the middle of August to continue munching away.
Meet the Goats of Prospect Park
For the next five-or-so months, eight goats will roam a gated-in portion of Prospect Park's northeast corner. They were brought in by the Prospect Park Alliance to eat away at the park's invasive plant species.
Prospect Park Will Get Clean-Up Help From Goats This Summer
The herd of goats will help prune shrubbery in the Vale of Cashmere
Drone Video Takes on Prospect Park from the Sky
It is a mix of time-lapse and real-time.