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Check out an exclusive look inside this summer’s BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. This free concert series kicks off tomorrow, July 31st, at the newly-renamed Lena Horne Bandshell inside Prospect Park.

Someone trashed Prospect Park – but parkgoers were quick to clean up after them. Myles Miller reports.

Oases in the best of times, New York City’s parks have served as essential refuges through the hard times of the pandemic — havens for the city’s millions who yearn to escape their locked-down apartments, to breathe fresh air and enjoy some elbow room. Parks Department spokesperson Crystal Howard said that in the depths of the city’s near-death experience...

Move over Mandarin duck: there’s a new fowl that has bird-watchers on the prowl. John Chandler reports on a rare snowy owl sighting in Central Park.

New York state and city wildlife officials say it’s too soon to know the local impact of exotic eels dumped into a Brooklyn lake last month

A man was seen dumping eels into the Prospect Park Lake in Brooklyn by a witness who tried to confront him.

A witness says he recorded a man dumping dozens of eels into the lake in Prospect Park. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

The spike in gun violence in New York City continued unabated this weekend, with at least 43 people shot in a 48-hour time period, that’s according to preliminary figures from the NYPD.

The man faces surgery after the seemingly random late-night attack in Prospect Park. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The NYPD is asking for the public’s help finding an unidentified man connected to two different sexual assault attacks in Brooklyn that occurred blocks away from one another in recent weeks.

The search is on for a man police say is wanted in connection with attacking at least two women in the Park Slope neighborhood.

New Yorkers are being warned to keep their young children and pets away from several lakes and ponds in New York City parks due to toxic algae.

Dangerous algae blooms have been confirmed in ponds in Central Park and Prospect Park and state environmental officials are warning residents to keep their dogs away from the water.

Police are looking for a man who allegedly tried to grab a woman in front of a residential building in Brooklyn, then whipped around and immediately tried to sexually attack a different woman when the first escaped his grasp, authorities say.

A group of five people has been robbing teenagers around Prospect Park, police said.

Foodies brace yourself – the Smorgasburg Food Market will return to the Financial District this month.

Subway service on the Q line in Brooklyn suffered delays Monday afternoon after a goose got onto the tracks at Parkside Avenue.

Don’t feel like packing into Times Square for the ball drop? There are plenty other ways to celebrate the New Year in the Big Apple, whether you are looking for a rooftop view, an elegant dinner, a party or brunch for New Year’s Day.

A woman was stabbed inside a Brooklyn subway station, police say, and the attacker is still on the run.

A donkey and an emu who bonded with each other can stay together, thanks to actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who plays the villainous Negan on the TV zombie thriller “The Walking Dead” and will keep the pair on his New York farm.