New York City will begin three days of aerial spraying for mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus at marshes and wetlands in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island on Thursday, weather permitting. A low-flying helicopter will spray larvicide over Marine Park and Fresh Creek Basin. ZIP codes where spraying will take place include 11229, […]
A contractor working for the National Park Service punctured a sewer main at Floyd Bennett Field last month, causing roughly 700 gallons of raw sewage to leak into the soil, according to NPS and the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation. “He didn’t realize that the pipe was there,” Daphne Yun, public affairs specialist for NPS […]
The first time you see a Dutch farmhouse in a Brooklyn neighborhood, you might think you’re hallucinating. What are these magical houses doing in this ever-changing, development-obsessed borough? They look like illustrations in a history book, with a modern modification here and there. One of Brooklyn’s Dutch farmhouses was built in the 1600s and is […]