East Flatbush and its surrounding neighborhoods have less park area than any other district in the city, with only 1 percent of the area’s 2,000 acres dedicated to recreational green space, according ...

Two brand new entrances to Prospect Park along Flatbush Avenue, completed through the Parks Without Borders (PWB) Initiative, are now open to the public. Until recently, there were no entrances to ...

City officials on Thursday unveiled a new protected bike lane on Brooklyn’s busy Flatbush Ave., the latest move in an decade-long effort to make the streets around Prospect Park safer for ...

Additionally, $3.2 million provided by NYC Parks’ Parks Without Borders program will fund the construction of the two new entrances along Flatbush Avenue — the first new entrances to the park ...

When Prospect Park was built in the 1860s and 1870s at the far reaches of the City of Brooklyn, the adjoining Town of Flatbush was still entirely rural. Many people believed, however, that the rise in ...

EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A new summer concert series kicked off in Brooklyn Wednesday night. 'Rise Up NYC' is a concert series that will provide 10 free community concerts that will be ...

His daughter inherited it, but when her land was sold in the early 1920s, the Flatbush Chamber of Commerce helped donate the relic to the city and place it in Prospect Park. The gift was accepted in ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article. Brooklyn (originally Breuekelen, in Dutch) was first settled in 1636 and incorporated as a city in 1843.Not long after came the village of Flatbush ...