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Health

Donation-Based Summer Yoga Classes Start At Prospect Park This Weekend

Spring Into Yoga [http://www.springintoyoga.org/]‘s donation-based classes begin this Saturday, June 8, at the Prospect Park Peristyle [http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/06/building-of-the-day-prospect-park-peristyle/] . The all-age, all-level classes are taught rain or shine by certified instructors, and have a $10 suggested donation with mats available to

great googamooga

The Great GoogaMooga Returns in May, Tickets on Sale Thursday

Love it or hate it, the Great GoogaMooga [http://brooklyn.googamooga.com/] is back in Prospect Park on May 17, 18, and 19, and tickets [http://brooklyn.googamooga.com/tickets/] are officially on sale this week. As was expected, the organizers have shaken up the works a bit for their

prospect park

Incoming Clouds

It was looking fairly gloomy today in Prospect Park, as this photo by charlene_taco [http://instagram.com/p/TtstDAHX3K/] shows. Captured a Park Slope moment on camera? Send it to editor@bklyner.com, add it to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/] , or

Central Brooklyn

See Prospect Park’s New $74 Million Restoration

There’s a new 30,000-square-foot ice skating rink coming to Prospect Park as part of a major green restoration project. Wollman Rink changed the face of the Prospect Park’s lake 60 years ago by destroying islands and altering or obliterating the lake’s shoreline. A $74 million Lakeside

Geese

There Is No Roundup Because There Are No Geese

photo credit: David Monniaux [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Branta_canadensis_DSC03398.JPG] The Prospect Park geese are safe because there are no [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/again-numbers-are-down-in-annual-goose-roundup/] Prospect Park Geese, says the New York Times. > Two years after the US Department of Agriculture

mile markers

Historic Ocean Pkwy Marker Gone, Only One Remains

Left: 5-Mile marker photographed by Forgotten New York's Kevin Walsh in 2000; Right: The spot where the mile marker stood, photographed June 16, 2010A closeup of the stone before it was removed. - Courtesy of Kevin Walsh/FNYOne of two remaining mile markers along Ocean Parkway was plucked

New York Road Runners

Runners Rejoice; Drivers Beware: Ocean Pkwy to Close For Marathon

We just got wind of this today, so this article is geared more towards the “Driver’s Beware” part of the headline. New York Road Runners [http://www.nyrr.org] has planned a mini-marathon [http://www.nyrr.org/races/2009/grandprix/brooklyn_reg.asp] tomorrow that will close down a