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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.