Prospect Park

Last Night: M. Ward, Yo La Tengo, and Broccoli in Prospect Park

Here's your "healthy" rock snack! [See More Rock 'n' Dinner Roll: Pavement's 'A Shady Lane' | Foodie Hip Hop] Well, last night as the sun set in Prospect Park and Yo La Tengo took the stage (sans bass player James McNew, felled by appendicitis, but replaced by two other temporary musicians), I wa ... More >>

Live: The Great GoogaMooga Tries To Break New York's Festival Curse

The Great GoogaMooga Prospect Park Sunday, May 20 Better than: Eating anything in my fridge. Vineland. Field Day. All Points West. New York is littered with the acrid corpses of past festivals, a perpetual tease giving hope to the most jaded music fan that maybe this year, someone will get it righ ... More >>

Great GoogaMooga Announces Initial Food Lineup: Prepare To Salivate

This morning the organizers of Great GoogaMooga—the "amusement park of food and drink" set to take place in Prospect Park on May 19 and 20—announced the first chunk of the food lineup for the festival, and not to kill a cliché or anything, but it looks like the park's greenery will be t ... More >>

Live: Animal Collective In Wonderland At Prospect Park Bandshell

​ Animal Collective w/Black Dice Celebrate Brooklyn! at Prospect Park Bandshell Tuesday, July 12 Better than: Sweating at home alone. Animal Collective has usually been categorized by its two primary creative forces: Avey Tare and Panda Bear. Sure, Deakin and Geologist are important (and per ... More >>

Perfect Picnic to Pack Your Lunch, New York

A perfect picnic, delivered.​Summer may not be here yet, officially speaking, but picnicking season is already in full swing. Perfect Picnic, a new food shop and picnic-delivery service based on the Lower East Side, has you covered for all your packed-lunch needs.

Animal Collective And Cut Copy To Play (Separate) Shows At Prospect Park; R. Kelly Will Be At The Prudential Center

​People have lots of strong opinions about the musical outfit that goes by the name Animal Collective, and expect those comment-section arguments to rage now that the band has taken it upon itself to tour this summer. (Brooklyn Vegan's already lighting up! Can someone get me some hummus?) So f ... More >>

Food Curated Goes Foraging for Spring Greens in Prospect Park

hummyhummy/flickrLook closer: it's dinner!​Ever walked into the park and walked out with a salad? Leda Meredith, urban forager and author of the The Locavore's Handbook, can show you how. She gets the Food Curated treatment in a two-part mini-doc that reveals just what you can find to eat grow ... More >>

Riding Fresh Powder in the Five Boroughs

warren lynn via Flickr​Tuesday night's not-quite-apocalyptic snowfall blanketed the city with up to 10 inches of snow, and while the last big storm wreaked havoc on the city, New Yorkers were ready and waiting for iteration two. This time we dusted off our sleds.

Bike Wars: Angry Fascist Motorists Strike Back

​Discord is brewing in the streets of New York. Or so the New York Times would have you believe, with its piece today on the latest urban conflict that plagues the people of our fair city: bike lanes. Last week, cyclists on Staten Island were mourning the loss of a local bike lane, which they ... More >>

Animal "Butcher" Terrorizes Prospect Park

​The Brooklyn Paper reports that Windsor Terrace residents have been turning up sacks of slaughtered animal parts in Prospect Park, supposedly the work of a "demented animal killer" who's been at-large for months. Yikes.

Live: The National Salute The Dead Geese Of Prospect Park

The National Prospect Park Bandshell Tuesday, July 27 It's great fun, actually, to watch National frontman Matt Berninger get steadily more and more intense during his 90-or-so minutes onstage, pacing the stage manically, jumping up on his monitors even though he's like seven feet tall, wielding ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Issues Ultimatum: "It's Geese or Human Beings"

via New York Times​You've probably heard that a whole bunch of Canada geese were exterminated earlier this month, since they have an unfortunate tendency, when not minding their own business in Prospect Park, to occasionally fly into planes. Even poor Sticky, the goose shot with an arrow who w ... More >>

SHAKESPEARE IN PROSPECT PARK

EBE Ensemble presents Julius Caesar

Q&A: Ozomatli, Who Are Performing at Celebrate Brooklyn Tonight, on Boycotting Arizona, Longevity, and Latino Gay Awareness

​Recently, the multi-instrumental Latino hip-hop rock troupe Ozomatli were appointed United States Cultural Ambassadors. They've been vocal proponents of a growing, musician-led boycott of Arizona, have written songs in support of gay awareness in the Latino community, and bear as much respons ... More >>

2010 River to River Festival, Featuring Free Energy, Best Coast, Antibalas, YACHT, Bear in Heaven, and More, Announced

River to River is the sort of secret weapon free summer arts series in NYC, with more appealing surroundings than the Williamsburg Waterfront and less pomp and circumstance than the line- and child-ridden Celebrate Brooklyn stuff at Prospect Park. Just roll up wherever, and watch for a while, basi ... More >>

Things To Do This Weekend for (Mostly) Free

​Sunday at 10, it's the Easter Parade on 5th Avenue between 49th and 57th. Get out your bizarre headgear and take a walk , or,if you'd rather sleep in, the live webcam is here. This weekend's free museums: on Saturday, the Brooklyn Museum is showcasing their new exhibit of ancient egyptian fun ... More >>

Duck Latest Dead Animal Found in Prospect Park, Swan Injured

WPIX via Brooklyn Paper​John Boy Walton, a swan who lives in Prospect Park, was found injured Friday and an unnamed duck was found dead in the latest of a series of mysterious animal deaths over the last two weeks around the park's lake. According to a parkgoer who spoke to the Brooklyn Paper, ... More >>

SHORT & SWEET

Show New York some love—with restraint

This Weekend: Spike Lee's Michael Jackson Block Party, After the Jump Fest, Impose and 826 NYC at the Yard

​ --Spike Lee's Brooklyn Block Party for Michael Jackson's birthday, which recently was moved from Fort Greene to Prospect Park, is expected to draw 10,000 people to the grossly named Nethermead in the heart of the park tomorrow. Things are supposed to go off rain or shine, although expect tha ... More >>

Tonight! Reality-TV Rejects, '80s Cheese, and Worthy Jazz

How the fuck did Ryan Cabrera fall all the way to Sullivan Hall? Five years ago, the MTV star was sitting happily in the Billboard top 10, hooking up with Elvis' granddaughter, ripping Ashlee Simpson's facile little heart into pieces. Tonight, he plays an acoustic set at a venue music-business stude ... More >>

Femi Kuti, Imminent Celebrate Brooklyn! Star, Discusses His Afrobeat Legacy and 20-Odd Stepmothers

Thursday night, the somewhat popular Celebrate Brooklyn! series at Prospect Park continues with Afrobeat big-shot Femi Kuti, son of Fela, which means that his familial reminisces involve him saying stuff like "It was scary because you never knew when the police or soldiers would raid and beat eve ... More >>

This Weekend! Trombones at the Guggenheim, Black Metal, and Classical With and Without Class

Every year, 327 cities around the world arrange to simultaneously celebrate the first day of summer. So on Sunday, Make Music New York sponsors 800 free performances spanning all five boroughs. The most appropriately superlative event is at the Guggenheim, where 80 trombonists will line the museum' ... More >>

Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

CARIBBEAN COOL

Trinidad dances into the night

Tonight! Amadou & Mariam, Busdriver, and the Beginning of the Week-Long Hold Steady Onslaught

Amadou & Mariam are superstars everywhere else on the planet -- in 2006, the blind Malian couple co-wrote the official World Cup anthem. But transplant the pair to Manhattan and they can't even fill up Webster Hall... yet. Let's make it happen. The Hold Steady, however, have already sold out ever ... More >>

AILEY 101

Where the pros get to schoolin’

Memorial Day Special: Lazy Picnic Eats

Cops Hunt "Lover's Lane" Rapist

Live: Manu Chao at the Prospect Park Bandshell, 06.26.07

Money Can't Buy Life in Prospect Park

Thursday 7/27

The Scene in Park Slope

Your Barista on Strike Day? Pregnant and walked almost two hours from East New York

Film

Close-Up on Park Slope

Film

Listings

An Oscar for Mythology

Prizewinning 'Saint' Builds Personal and Financial Empires

Dance

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

And 20 Things to Eat

10 Summer Food Destinations

Jazz

Film

Dance

Close-Up on Prospect Heights

Holiday Happenings

Rock: Festivals

American Bandshell

Open City

Parades, Beaches, Festivals: What's Out There

Road Rage

Cars Rule in Prospect Park

Cast Party

Fishing in Prospect Park Lake