Oct. 8, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen There are 600,000 pieces of living history in Brooklyn: trees. They fill the borough’s parks, line its streets, and shade its playgrounds and schoolyards, but their contributions often go unnoticed. In 1985, the city’s parks department set out to change that when it compiled the first list of…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A 23-year-old Department of Parks & Recreation employee was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing a 30-year-old man last month in one of two violent incidents that left three men dead on the same night within just a few blocks.
Sep. 19, 2023 By Jada Camille
City officials joined with the Decolvenaere family to unveil a new dog run on Shore Road named after Frank Decolvenaere, a beloved Bay Ridge resident who was hit and killed while walking his dog in 2020.