Prospect Park's administrator--under whose nose the city and federal government culled Prospect Park's beloved goose population, in the dark of early morning, without public notice, in early July--is trying to make amends.
This afternoon, the Prospect Park Alliance, a nonprofit that operates Prospect Park on behalf of the Parks Department and of which administrator Tupper Read More
The always charming Andrea Peyser devotes the majority of her New York Post column today to the Brooklyn hot-button topic du jour, the Prospect Park geese.
The issue, for those--to evoke another bird species--who bury their heads in the sand, centers on the hundreds of Prospect Park geese who used to reside at the Prospect Park Read More
After the bird strike that downed a U.S. Airways flight on Jan. 15, 2009, wildlife experts claim they were summarily excluded from discussions in how best to manage the geese in New York City green spaces, and that had they been included they never would have supported this summer's massacre of Prospect Park's beloved geese, Read More
Criticism of the unexpected city and federal government destruction of hundreds of Prospect Park geese continues to mount. Newly piling on the anti-geese-gassing bandwagon: former Parks commish Henry Stern and state Senator Eric Adams, who yesterday both issued strongly worded statements questioning the wisdom of destroying the geese that have made the Prospect Park Read More
Tomorrow, starting at 10 a.m., the Parks Department will host its 63rd annual Macy's Fishing Contest at the Lake in Prospect Park. The department's chipper new mascot, Pearl the Squirrel, is expected to attend. But for the first time in recent memory, there will be no geese. That's because, as everyone who frequents Prospect Park Read More
Bomber will drop flowers into New York Harbor. [AP]
M.I.A. writes a song about Lynn Hirschberg. [Village Voice]
Luna Park opens to positive reviews. [NYDN]
Abramovic wraps up her stint at the MoMA. [NYT]
Robots factor heavily into BP's latest effort to stop the oil spill. [Bloomberg]
The Brooklyn Paper, perhaps searching for a new obsession now that its fixation of yore—Atlantic Yards—is a fait accompli, is continuing its crusade to rescue the animals of Prospect Park from a recent spate of lakeside violence, one that has prompted the paper to dub the greensward's body of water "The Lake of Death."
Amy Sohn’s Prospect Park West, a gleefully bitchy take on Park Slope moms by a former New York columnist, won’t be released until September—but as of last week, Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company was already looking to turn the novel into an HBO series. The allure of the park is hard to resist. Whether that’s Read More
Two bands will be playing the Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert in Prospect Park on the afternoon of July 11, two bands that have the same name and the same members. Kids will be hoping to hear this band play “Who Put the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order?” or “Rolling O” while parents will be crossing Read More
Tickets for Oscar and Pulitzer winner Bob Dylan's Prospect Park concert tonight are going for upward of $565 each, according to Gowanus Lounge. Meanwhile, tomorrow's print Observer will have a story about a real estate deal that connects to Mr. Dylan.
Coincidence?
You know the drill: The Prospect Park Audubon Center offers the kids some “interactive exhibits” (let’s hope that doesn’t include that baboon family) with music, crafts and general whoop-de-do.
Back on the island, the Central Park Conservancy opens the Peter Jay Sharp Children’s Glade, a new area at the Great Hill Read More
The anti-war activists Jonathan Tasini was looking for during his primary challenge to Hillary Clinton may finally emerge this weekend as the Working Families Party is films an anti-war ad this Saturday in Prospect Park. They're looking for volunteers to lip sync a Pete Seeger song for the shoot and help "send a message Read More
1PP Developers Louis Greco Jr. and Mario Procida have teamed up to form SDS Procida. Why does that matter? The new group is developing Richard Meier's On Prospect Park, the 114-unit condo at 1 Grand Army Plaza. (A good start.) Plus, the press release mentions "intelligent design" in the requisite paragraph on respecting local residential Read More
That ain't no Prospect Park. When Australian actors come "up over," they really leave the old country behind. Over the weekend, Luxist picked up a listing from McGrath's in Sydney (with tons of accompanying pictures) and ID'd it as belonging to Brokeback Mountaineer and Park Slope Parents' Association member-to-be Heath Ledger: His home Read More
