A fight over a planned skate park in Mount Prospect Park raises concerns about green space, transparency and public input.
Advocates say Downtown Brooklyn’s rapid housing growth has outpaced the creation of new parks and green space in surrounding neighborhoods.
Sunset Park Greenway recently opened along Third Avenue to improve safety, green space and neighborhood connectivity.
NYC Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura joined a Seth Low Park cleanup, highlighting upgrades and strong support for community volunteers.
NYC DEP and The Doe Fund launched a $4.5M program training workers to maintain over 1,000 rain gardens across Brooklyn and Queens.
M.S. 407 students created a Bay Ridge pollinator garden, promoting hands-on learning, environmental awareness and community engagement.
The Green-House public opening coincides with the 188th anniversary of the Cemetery, which was founded April 18, 1838.
The giant sunflower could be seen from helicopters above the crowd of over 400,000 people who came from all over New York City and the world to participate in the
The giant sunflower could be seen from helicopters above the crowd of over 400,000 people who came from all over New York City and the world to participate in the
After 15 years of competing, residents of Macon Street between Ralph and Howard Avenues, in Bedford-Stuyvesant are overjoyed that their block was named 2014 Greenest Block in Brooklyn. The block also won for Best Street Tree Beds.
Their victory over nearly 200 blocks from more than 30 neigh …After 15 years of competing, residents of Macon Street between Ralph and Howard Avenues, in Bedford-Stuyvesant are overjoyed that their block was named 2014 Greenest Block in Brooklyn. The block also won for Best Street Tree Beds.
Their victory over nearly 200 blocks from more than 30 neigh …The past, present and future of Greenpoint comes alive in a new mural researched, designed and painted by Brooklyn students on one wall of local film studio Broadway Stages.
Entitled Stages of Greenpoint, the 16-foot-by-12-foot mural features a series of snapshot-like images of peo …The past, present and future of Greenpoint comes alive in a new mural researched, designed and painted by Brooklyn students on one wall of local film studio Broadway Stages.
Entitled Stages of Greenpoint, the 16-foot-by-12-foot mural features a series of snapshot-like images of peo …
A greener Greenpoint is on its way, thanks to the creative vision of Greenpointers and the first round of grant funding being approved through the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund (GCEF).
The bar and gallery spaces at Brooklyn Fire Proof on Ingraham Street in Bushwick were hopping on Thursday, September 12 thanks to the huge turn-out of businessowners, real estate developers
Brooklyn has a lot of green space in parks, gardens and sidewalk tree- and flower-beds, but the greenest blocks of them all are in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Boerum Hill. That
BY JULIETTE PICCINI TUGANDER Before the school year ended, St. Saviour High School students and faculty member Janet Cardone joined forces with Trees New York (TreesNY) to plant flowers in
A rash of 12 burglaries have plagued Greenpoint and Williamsburg businesses over the past month and a half and now the police are asking for the public’s help in identifying
There’s still time to RSVP for the third networking mixer for the Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce, taking place tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Awakening NY at 607 Manhattan Avenue. Just
In its first post on Twitter, the Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce enthusiastically declared that it “has entered the 21st century” and there’s “no turning back now!” The recently relaunched merchants
At its first small business mixer of the year, held on January 24 at CitiStorage in Williamsburg, the Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce made it clear that they intend to do
The Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce is back and aiming to be better than ever, with an enthusiastic new executive director, at least 10 new member businesses, and support from Assemblymember