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Grab your roller skates and get ready to skate in Prospect Park! CURLFEST Roller Set is back in-person in New York City this year after the pandemic forced the event to shift into a virtual space.  This year’s CURLFEST Roller Set event will kick off on Sept. 17 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the LeFrak Skate Center in…

Police are looking for a stranger who grabbed a 23-year-old woman walking down the subway stairs and threw her against the bars separating the steps from the platform before sexually attacking her during a morning rush hour last week. The woman was heading toward a southbound Q train at the Prospect Park station around 7:10 a.m. Thursday when cops say…

The teens, a boy and a girl, were made to look down the barrel of a gun as they handed over their sneakers and credit cards. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

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.