environment
Local political leaders ceremoniously broke ground for the new library at Norman Ave and Leonard St yesterday (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – Local leaders broke ground yesterday on the new Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center, surrounded by North Brooklyn Community members, builders, and schoolchildren from nearby PS 34’s Green
Central Brooklyn
This coming weekend, the Flatbush Food Coop [http://flatbushfood.coop/] (1415 Cortelyou Road between Rugby and Marlborough Roads) will be hosting its fourth annual Flatbush Green Weekend — which translates to two days chock full of free eco-friendly events that are open to everyone. Here’s what’s on the schedule
Bensonhurst
A lovely view of Coney Island Creek from Calvert Vaux Park. Photo by Den SchwartzIf locals get their way, the notoriously polluted Coney Island Creek just might become Brooklyn’s third Superfund Site. (Currently, the Gowanus Canal [/?s=%22gowanus+canal%22] and Newtown Creek are the only Superfund Sites in
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Photo screenshot from Brooklyn Daily Eagle archives. [https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/52893011/?terms=bertha%2Bschalk]In July of 1948, Bertha Schalk was fed up with the city garbage trucks dumping trash into Mill Creek. The dumping caused a stench so bad that it drove Schalk to take to the
Animals
Zoya munches away on invasive plants like poison ivy. (Photo by Heather Andelsman/Park Slope Stoop)Don’t be surprised if you run into a goat or two, or eight, on your daily jog through Prospect Park this summer. For the next five months, a group of eight goats will
Education
James Madison High School students and teachers celebrate creating the borough’s longest chain of plastic bags. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)James Madison High students wrapped their school in plastic Tuesday — creating Brooklyn’s longest recorded chain of plastic bags — to raise awareness about the dangers of unsustainable environmental
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A red-tailed hawk feasting on prey. (Photo: Daniel Frazer / Sheepshead Bites) Recently, I was crossing over the fields to the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center when I noticed a large, beautiful female red-tailed hawk flying oddly low in the sky. At breakneck speeds, she circled tightly around the
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Photo via the Prospect Park Alliance [https://www.facebook.com/ProspectParkBrooklyn/photos/pb.10150099384115385.-2207520000.1439214140./10155891916235385/?type=3&theater] If you love Prospect Park and are great with people, you might want to consider applying to be a volunteer leader with our borough’s biggest green space. The
Destinations
A first-time visitor to Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/], the National Historic Landmark located just south of Prospect Park that was founded in 1938, will immediately notice how serene the space is. These days, you can stand in a lush, secluded spot near the 39th Street border and hear
DEC
Swans on Weber Court. (Photo by Eric Jankiewicz)The state has released a new plan to manage the booming mute swan population, telling critics that if they don’t want to see the swans killed then they have to pay to keep them around. The revised plan, released Monday by
compost
[https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn/photos/pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1420815992./10151630067957729/?type=3&theater] Photo via Compost for Brooklyn [https://www.facebook.com/compostforbrooklyn/photos/pb.333868227728.-2207520000.1420815992./10151630067957729/?type=3&theater] If you’re looking for a place to get rid of your food scraps, Compost
ceasars bay
Source: Flickr/jpotischA study highlighting the exorbitant cost of a proposed waste transfer station on the Upper East Side may provide ammunition for activists, community members, and pols fighting the planned Gravesend Bay waste treatment facility [/saturday-colton-treyger-lead-rally-bensonhurst-waste-transfer-station/]. The study, conducted by the Independent Budget Office [IBO], found that the proposed