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This is beautiful Shell Bank Canal. Do you know what neighborhood it’s in? Photo: Lore Croghan/Brooklyn Eagle

See the neighborhood with Brooklyn’s prettiest canal — I don’t mean the Gowanus — and streets in alphabetical order

February 19 | Lore Croghan

Eye on Real Estate: This is a story about Brooklyn’s other...

Welcome to the wilderness, right here in Brooklyn. This is the Marine Park Preserve. Photo: Lore Croghan/Brooklyn Eagle

A winter hike on Marine Park’s nature trails

January 3 | Lore Croghan

Welcome to the wilderness, right here in Brooklyn...

In southern Brooklyn, a nearly 40-year wait for trash upgrades

December 3 | Meaghan McGoldrick

For nearly four decades, a swath of southern Brooklyn has been waiting...

New housing eyed for Brooklyn lots ravaged by Sandy

September 11 | Clifford Michel, THE CITY

This story was originally published on Sept. 11 by THE CITY. While...

In this Saturday, May 13, 2017 photo, Lil Miss Hot Mess reads to children during the Feminist Press' presentation of Drag Queen Story Hour at the Park Slope Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. About once a month since last fall, the Brooklyn Public Library has been presenting Drag Queen Story Hour, where performers with names such as Lil Miss Hot Mess and Ona Louise regale an audience of young children and their parents. AP Photos/Mary Altaffer

LISTEN: Inside the protest at Gerritsen Beach’s Drag Queen Story Hour

June 13 | By Scott Enman, Paul Frangipane, Lawrence Madsen

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Protesters clash over Drag Queen Story Hour in Gerritsen Beach

June 6 | Meaghan McGoldrick

Supporters and opponents of the Gerritsen Beach Library’s premier Drag Queen...

Drag Queen Rev. Yolanda performs at a Drag Queen Story Hour. Photo by Edwina Hay/DQSH

Counter-protest planned in support of Gerritsen Beach drag queen story hour

June 6 | Meaghan McGoldrick

In response to an organized outcry against the Gerritsen Beach Library’...

Drag queen story hour at local library sparks outrage in Gerritsen Beach

June 5 | Meaghan McGoldrick

A popular library program promoting tolerance is sparking a furious demand from...

See six spectacular shoreline spots in Gerritsen Beach

February 19 | By Lore Croghan

It looks like a New England fishing village. That’s what...

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this weekend!

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Keeping history alive in revival of key retail blocks of Montague Street: "What we really want," said Calfa brothers," is the Brooklyn Women's Exchange..."

Friday, July 1, 2022

CITY OF WATER DAY IN GOWANUS: A set of events centered around the Gowanus Canal will be part of the 15th annual City of Water Day coming to New York and New Jersey’s shores on July 16. 

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CENTRAL LAWN REOPENS AT FT. GREENE PARK: The Central Lawn at Fort Greene Park has reopened, just in time for the Fourth of July, but with different rules in two sections of the lawn.

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CAFFEINE APP FOR MOVIE SERIES: “Summer Movies Under the Stars,” hosted at Fort Greene Park in July and then in Prospect Park in August, will have a new Brooklyn-born culinary feature for coffee aficionados. 

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— Helen Klein, opening remarks in a remembrance of Buddy Scotto, at the recent renaming of a Carroll Gardens Street

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Could humans live through another ice age? Probably. But like the frog in the frying pan, they may have more trouble with the man-made,  incremental warming of oceans and the LOSS of ice in glaciers.

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discussion of ice age cycles.

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Red Winged Blackbird, spotted in Brooklyn Bridge park. Photo by Heather Wolf, text by Joseph Palmer.

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