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May
27
Love More Than Just Your Veggies: Local Roots NYC Seeks To Grow In The Brownstone Belt

Love More Than Just Your Veggies: Local Roots NYC Seeks To Grow In The Brownstone Belt

Courtesy Local Roots NYC“I hated vegetables as a kid,” declared Wen-Jay Ying, the founder and owner of Local Roots
3 min read
May
26
The Naval Cemetery Landscape Creates A New Public Space At The Navy Yard

The Naval Cemetery Landscape Creates A New Public Space At The Navy Yard

The Naval Cemetery Landscape at dusk. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox.)A former cemetery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
2 min read
May
26
Love More Than Just Your Veggies: Local Roots NYC Seeks To Grow In The Brownstone Belt

Love More Than Just Your Veggies: Local Roots NYC Seeks To Grow In The Brownstone Belt

(Courtesy Local Roots NYC.)“I hated vegetables as a kid,” declared Wen-Jay Ying, the founder and owner of Local Roots
4 min read
May
26
Prospect Park To Build Two New Flatbush Avenue Entrances; BP Urges Traffic Calming

Prospect Park To Build Two New Flatbush Avenue Entrances; BP Urges Traffic Calming

Flatbush Avenue, looking north toward Grand Army Plaza, with Prospect Park on the left. (Photo: Google Maps)The effort to
3 min read
May
25
$5 Million Awarded To Fort Greene Park For Improvements

$5 Million Awarded To Fort Greene Park For Improvements

The northern perimeter of Fort Greene Park (Courtesy Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership)Fort Greene Park has won $5 million earmarked
2 min read
May
24
Meet Megan Davidson: A Doula Whose Concern Expands To The Whole Community

Meet Megan Davidson: A Doula Whose Concern Expands To The Whole Community

Megan with a baby’s client in Fort Greene. (Courtesy Megan Davidson.)Doulas are having a moment. Take it from
4 min read
May
24

Bay Cleanup Crew Tied To Alleged ‘Cult’ Based In South Korea

Volunteers from the WeLoveU Foundation posing with City Councilman Chaim Deutsch. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)It’s not everyday
3 min read
May
24
It’s Joseph Alexiou’s Gowanus Canal, We Just Swim In It

It’s Joseph Alexiou’s Gowanus Canal, We Just Swim In It

Author and journalist Joseph Alexiou. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop) “It’s a little pungent today.” On a
6 min read
May
23
Three Reasons To Sign Up For A Free Rain Barrel

Three Reasons To Sign Up For A Free Rain Barrel

NYC Department of Environmental Protection rain barrel giveaway in St. Albans, Queens, June, 2015. (Photo: NYC DEP via flickr [https:
3 min read
May
19
New Clean-Up Crew in Prospect Park Consists of Eight Four-Legged Friends

New Clean-Up Crew in Prospect Park Consists of Eight Four-Legged Friends

Zoya munches away on invasive plants like poison ivy. (Photo by Heather Andelsman/Park Slope Stoop)Don’t be surprised
6 min read