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Mayor Bloomberg has met the enemy — and it is the geese.
Like a fowl Phoenix rising from the ashes of its fallen brethren, at least 37 geese have been spotted swimming on Prospect Park lake — less than a month after the federal government massacred 290 of the popular water birds in a nocturnal operation that shocked the borough.
The federal government approach toward geese became “more aggressive” — and more lethal — in the days after the so-called Miracle on the Hudson, resulting in the exclusion of animal experts from the decision-making process and setting the stage for the execution of thousands of waterfowl.
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The area around the new home of the Brooklyn Nets will be anything but a slam dunk for drivers next month as Flatbush Avenue will be narrowed to accommodate construction workers.
Talk about a green party.
Praise the lord and pass the kohlrabi!
The city wants dollar vans to fill a huge gap in Brownstone Brooklyn bus service that was created by MTA service cuts last month.
By Gary Buiso
It’s not just humans who are sweating out this heatwave — the high temps have also gotten to the Ninth Street Bridge.
Brooklyn’s biggest champion is campaigning to be a loser — but he won’t tell if the scale is tipping in his favor. In the spirit of glasnost, we bring you this week’s Hottie of the Double D — from Russia, with love.
Brooklyn Bridge Park visitor Bella Spina, 6, held the seashell to her ear and listened for the ocean, her face collapsing into wonder when she heard the gourd sweetly hum. 77th Precinct
A tree may indeed grow in Brooklyn — but Frieda Lim is using her Gowanus rooftop to grow lemon verbena, echinacia, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant and other delicious produce.
Mill Basin is now a handy land, thanks to the opening of its new Lowe’s.
Coney Island’s got talent.
Previous Park Slope HeadlinesJuly 28th, 2010 City seeks 'dollar vans' to operate on dead MTA routesThe city wants dollar vans to fill a huge gap in Brownstone Brooklyn bus service that was created by MTA service cuts last month.The Saturday feature: She turned her roof into a farm!A tree may indeed grow in Brooklyn — but Frieda Lim is using her Gowanus rooftop to grow lemon verbena, echinacia, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant and other delicious produce.No cold war for this HottieIn the spirit of glasnost, we bring you this week’s Hottie of the Double D — from Russia, with love.July 27th, 2010 'City of Water Day' salutes Adam's aleBrooklyn Bridge Park visitor Bella Spina, 6, held the seashell to her ear and listened for the ocean, her face collapsing into wonder when she heard the gourd sweetly hum.July 21st, 2010 Tree branch madman is caught! Arborsault ends for nowA serial tree branch breaker in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights is finally in custody — bringing an end to a months-long reign of arborsault the likes of which Brooklyn has never seen.THEY HAD TO DIE! Feds try to explain their geese massacreFederal officials are fighting back against the notion that the geese of Prospect Park were needlessly sent to the gas chamber, insisting that the birds that were snuffed out on July 8 are exactly the kinds of fowl that strike planes near New York airports.To clean Gowanus, Columbia Street gets messyThe clean-up of the smelly Gowanus Canal is really going to stink for people in the Columbia Street Waterfront District.July 20th, 2010 In Slope, MTA bus cuts cause double trouble on Seventh AvenueLast month’s MTA service reductions seemed to have a silver lining for Park Slopers, as two bus lines were poised to service busy Seventh Avenue — but it turns out that the buses are running consecutively rather than on a staggered schedule.July 16th, 2010 The Fourth Avenue flood! Heavy rain brings not-quite-Biblical damageFourth Avenue and Carroll Street was inundated Tuesday afternoon with filthy water rising as high as car tires — once again infuriating locals in the flood-prone area.New bid to save Minerva-Statue of Liberty view planeGreen-Wood Cemetery’s Roman Goddess of War is about to clash with her toughest foe to date: city bureaucracy.July 14th, 2010 Still Brooklyn's Iron Man — but is age catching up to senior Achilles?The fastest senior citizen in the borough is fresh off two more gold medal victories, but there’s one unstoppable force that he can’t beat: aging. |
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