Dog owners might want to avoid Prospect Park for a while. The water at Prospect Park Lake tested positive for “high toxins” earlier this month, the Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed to the Brooklyn Eagle Monday morning. The same “harmful algal blooms” have killed small clusters of dogs across the country for the past three […]
The 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn — the first major engagement of the Revolutionary War to take place after the U.S. declared its independence in 1776 — is coming up on Tuesday, Aug. 27. More than a dozen events to commemorate the epic battle will be taking place in Brooklyn from Aug. 15 […]
Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil held Monday night at Grand Army Plaza, where local and congressional leaders spoke out in united voices of anger in pain against the epidemic of gun violence and the reluctance of the Trump administration to confront it. The vigil came on the heels of a sequence of mass […]