17 Plays (and 3 Festivals) to Jazz Up Your June
‘Are You Now or Have You Ever Been’ Anna D. Shapiro directs a rotating-cast revival of Eric Bentley’s…
Restler, developers clash over Monitor point proposal at City Council hearing • Brooklyn Paper
The fight over proposed high-rise development Monitor Point ramped up last week as the project finally came before…
NYC Council fighting back on Mamdani’s proposed cuts to Parks patrols — with plans to fund hundreds more officers
They want to see more green! The City Council is pushing back against Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s cuts to…
What’s the New Greenpoint ‘Beach’ Park Really Like?
On a 90-degree day in May, the people of Greenpoint went to the beach on their lunch breaks,…
180-year-old Cuyler Gore Park gets new playground, spray showers and seating in $5M renovation • Brooklyn Paper
Officials on Thursday celebrated the completion of a $5 million renovation of Cuyler Gore Park. Photo courtesy of…
Sweet (and salty) relief: Brooklyn beaches to open for the season on May 23 • Brooklyn Paper
Summer weather has arrived in New York City ahead of schedule, and the cool relief of a swim…
One-third of NYC Parks patrols to be axed under Mamdani’s budget plan: ‘Every neighborhood park would be affected’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $124.7 billion spending plan unveiled this week includes a plan to cut 100 uniformed officers’…
Green space can’t catch up with Downtown Brooklyn housing spike
The tour was the fourth led by NY4P, which has identified a neighborhood in each borough with a…
McCarren Park’s Asphalt Lot to Be Transformed
$14.7 million was secured to transform the lot from cracked asphalt to green parkland. A cracked asphalt lot…
Washington Square Park was NYC’s least safe park in 2025
Drug-infested Washington Square Park was by far the most dangerous green space in the city last year —…
‘We will not accept this as normal’
Hate-filled vandals spray-painted swastikas in a Queens playground and opposite another park across the world’s borough in separate…
Dynamic Artistic Duos are on Display in New York This Spring
When I interviewed Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) at her Connecticut home in 2003, the famous painter spoke glowingly about…