Prospect Park

GoogaMooga Countdown: Watch Northern Spy Food Co. and Landhaus Prep on Food.Curated

With GoogaMooga just a day away, we're savoring the videos Food.Curated created to preview what some of the participating restaurants will bring to this weekend's food festival in Prospect Park.

Like Frankfurters? Love Slayer? Groove to Tara Sinn's Horror Dog II

California-born artist Tara Sinn -- now a New Yorker -- created this video involving a hot dog that never ends. The soundtrack is Slayer's "Raining Blood." Let the horror begin! [See More: M. Ward, Yo La Tengo, and Broccoli in Prospect Park | Pavement's 'A Shady Lane' | Foodie Hip Hop]

Brooklynites, You're Going To Have To Ice-Skate Somewhere Else This Winter

Come winter, New Yorkers love to ice-skate. They also love to hibernate for three months and watch Woody Allen movies (for whatever the reason, his flicks comfortably settle when it's freezing outside). However, I do not like to ice-skate - I tried my unbalanced luck at the rink in Central Park a fe ... More >>

Cast In Concrete #5: Taking In Bluegrass While Sitting On Prospect Park's Grass

Cast In Concrete tracks Vijith Assar as he records New York City's street musicians. If you'll be busking nearby soon and would like to appear in a future installment, please let him know. Who: Five dudes and one woman who do not have an official name When: July 2, 9 p.m. Where: Prospect Park, Grea ... More >>

Confessions of an Herb Thief

The beguiling display of herbs in front of the Spotted Pig includes fennel (with fennel pollen tops), rosemary, and lavender. Fresh herbs are indispensible to many types of cooking - Tuscan, Californian, Vietnamese, and French spring to mind, to name just a few. Using dried herbs shaken from bottl ... More >>

Prospect Park Loop Redesign: More Space for Walkers and Bikers

By now, you have probably heard about proposals to redesign the Prospect Park loop, which were discussed at a public meeting last night. You see, the Prospect Park Road Sharing Taskforce has been seriously considering changes after several recent accidents left two with severe brain injuries. Th ... More >>

New Year's Eve Fireworks

Prospect Park Wildlife Threatened By Poachers

​A group of homeless people have been camping out beside the Prospect Park lake for the last two months and hunting small game for food, reports the Post. The poachers stuck to the lake's southern end, where they littered the area with cans and trash and killed "wildlife" like squirrels, ducks ... More >>

Prospect Park's Geese to Be Eaten by Pennsylvanians

​Following last year's mass slaughter of Prospect Park geese, the Department of Environmental Protection is trying to appease its numerous critics. Not by emphasizing its concern for animal welfare, mind you, but by touting its dedication to recycling. This summer, instead of being left to rot ... More >>

'Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Presents Andrew Bird'

Brooklyn Is Covered in Condoms

​"Jackpot" for the Prospect Park cleaning crew over the weekend meant condoms. Wrappers and rubbers comprised much of the trash collected by the the Prospect Park Litter Mob, a volunteer group concerned with "Brooklyn's largest remaining stretch of forest," and their community-minded actions e ... More >>

Prospect Park Still Doesn't Want Your Damn Bike Lanes

Brooklyn Downtown Star​Listen, Prospect Park. The generous, benevolent Department of Transportation has bestowed upon you a big, green bike lane to keep you safe from all of those scary, lycra-clad cyclists. Big Brother (i.e., the city) says it keeps your babies safe and your Subarus dent-free, so ... More >>

Evil, Marauding, Occasionally Headless Brooklyn Raccoons Now Rabid, Too!

via ICanHazCheezburger.com​Since we care about the fate of adorable animals in trouble, and since raccoons can, given relative youth and the right lighting, be considered somewhat adorable (especially if they're not tipping over your garbage cans or swinging through your yard Tarzan-style to r ... More >>

Park Slope Zombie Geese Returning in Droves to Make Up for Fallen Comrades

​In the epic battle of humans vs. geese, it seems that geese have a win. A little more than a month after the mass gassing of some 400 Prospect Park geese that included the goosicide of folk hero Sticky, the birds are back like part two of a good zombie movie. We imagine they are none too happ ... More >>

Live: Sonic Youth Draws a Gazillion People to Prospect Park

Sonic Youth's "Express Way To Yr Skull (Live in Prospect Park)" from Big Ass Lens. There was this terrific moment Saturday night during the encore of Sonic Youth's terrifyingly mobbed Prospect Park show, just after they'd finished Daydream Nation thriller "Silver Rocket" amid a strobe-light finale, ... More >>

Last Night: Falu Perform at Celebrate Brooklyn's "Mother India: The 21st Century Remix"

​Photos by Puja Patel​MI21: Mother India 21st Century Remix with DJ Tigerstyle and Falu Celebrate Brooklyn/Prospect Park Thursday, July 29 "Some of you already have the Bollywood thing down, wearing your sunglasses at night," teased Falu singer Gaurav Shah, as he donned his own pair. "T ... More >>

Outlaw Geese Flout Feds, Are Decidedly Not 'Down'

​Had you lost all hope for New York State's beleaguered, massacred geese? Fear not! The Brooklyn Paper reports today that our avian friends are making a comeback. At least 37 geese have been seen in the lake in Prospect Park since the recent mass euthanasia, and the rebel birds are being aided and ... More >>

Studies in Grit: Tough-as-Nails Geese Survive Prospect Park Massacre

​It seems only yesterday that 400 Canada geese were tragically euthanized in Prospect Park. We thought that the park's goose population was done, finito, kaput. But today, just when we had given up hope, good news! As many as four survivors of the mass slaughter have been spotted near the lake ... More >>

Battle of the Boroughs: Prospect Park vs. Central Park

​Does "anyone seriously considered the two parks comparable," as one of the two New York Times writers assigned to the story writes in Sunday's paper? Doesn't matter: here's an artful weekend story, doing exactly that, comparing Manhattan's classic Central Park to Brooklyn's BroBo alternative, ... More >>

Wild Goose Chase in Prospect Park Continues for Bird Shot in the Neck

Garey Lewis via New York Times​A wild goose who essentially has an arrow-hole tracheotomy amazingly continues flying and eating in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Hundreds of rangers, volunteers, and Parks Department employees are attempting to capture the bird to provide appropriate medical attentio ... More >>

Video: Tokyo Police Club, "Breakneck Speed"

Our favorite (or should we say, as these Canadians do, favourite) type of video: tour/friend footage, shot on flip cams and cell phones and whatever else is at hand, repurposed as scrolling nostalgia for a song that pretty much simulates the same. This record, Champ, is a total delight, by the way ... More >>

Things to Do This Weekend for (Mostly) Free

​Macy*s flower show opens Sunday, opening with the Petacular Fair, featuring Lady Bunny and a pet runway show. Also Sunday: this year's grand opening of the Cyclone in Coney Island.

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Live: David Byrne Regales, Like, 10 Million People at Prospect Park

Just keep your eye on the glowing white rectangle. CREDIT David Byrne Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Monday, June 8 A lesson we forget every winter and relearn every summer is how nuts New Yorkers are when it comes to free outdoor shows -- and how many New Yorkers there are. Prospect Park i ... More >>

Foraging For Free Food--Garlic Chives in Prospect Park

Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

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