At least $12 million in State Senate funding for Brooklyn parks, announced just days before the 2018 general election, seems to be missing. Shortly before he was voted out of office in a tight reelection race, longtime State Sen. Marty Golden announced a pair of grants for parks on each end of his district. Now, […]
City Department of Health trucks will be out again Thursday night spraying pesticide mist in parts of Brooklyn and Queens to kill mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus. Spraying will take place between the hours of 8:30 p.m. Thursday night and 6 a.m. Friday morning, weather permitting. This is the sixth time this summer the city […]
To reduce the risk of West Nile virus and minimize the general presence of mosquitos, the Health Department will conduct a second aerial larviciding to marshes in four of the five boroughs next week. The spraying, which uses environmentally friendly larvicides to kill young mosquitoes before they grow into adults, will take place in Brooklyn, […]