Oct. 31, 2024 By Jada Camille The city on Wednesday unveiled the new and improved basketball courts at Breukelen Ballfield in East New York. With a significant investment from the Social Justice Fund — run by Clara Wu Tsai, who owns the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Liberty alongside her husband Joe Tsai…
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Great moments in tree-story: Parks Department adds 17 local legends to list of ‘Great Trees of New York City’
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…
Media lab at Red Hook Recreation Center gets $100,000 upgrade
Feb. 13, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
The Red Hook Recreation Center has received another major upgrade in the form of a newly-enhanced media lab, which the city’s Parks Department unveiled on Monday.
Brownsville park ‘open for business’ after $21 million make-over
Nov. 27, 2023 By Adam Daly
The newly-redesigned Callahan-Kelly Playground in Brownsville officially opened to the public this month after undergoing a $21.6 million face-lift.
Looking sharp! McGolrick Park gets $2M facelift, with seasonal farmer’s market to run year-round
Nov. 20, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
Looking sharp!