FORT GREENE, Brooklyn (PIX11) — Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn is facing a controversial redesign that has left the community divided over plans to remove 78 trees. The $24 million project aims to ...

Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, New York on July 2, 2025. Local activists have clashed with the New York City Parks Department for almost a decade to prevent the removal of more than 70 trees from a ...

After nearly a decade of delays and lawsuits, the city is moving forward with its controversial plan to renovate Fort Greene Park. A judge this month dismissed the latest legal challenge filed by ...

Plant-loving locals are looking to block the city from chopping down 78 trees in Fort Greene Park – a move they say would turn the greenspace into a “summer frying pan.” A group of residents in ...

Twelve people were hospitalized after a three-wheel motorcycle struck a group of pedestrians inside Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn on Sunday evening, the FDNY confirmed.

To tree, or not to tree? That is the question at the center of the third lawsuit targeting the city’s long-planned overhaul of Fort Greene Park. The lush but aging greenspace was chosen as one of ...

Fort Greene Park — the borough’s first outdoor recreation area — came into being in 1848 at the urging of Walt Whitman, then editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 1858, the park was so heavily used ...

To tree, or not to tree? That is the question at the center of the third lawsuit targeting the city’s long-planned overhaul of Fort Greene Park. The lush but aging greenspace was chosen as one of ...

Some of the walls and fences surrounding Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park will be coming down and the edges of the parks beautified under a Parks Department initiative to make parks more open and ...

A Brooklyn man has been arrested for stabbing a Great Dane mix named Bandit who bounded up to his own dog in a park. The Daily News reports that Steven Horn, 61, was charged with animal cruelty, ...