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This infamous NYC hangout for gangsters like Boss Tweed and escaped inmates is now a certified public 'tree museum'
October 16, 2024 | 7:00amThis🔜 Queens park has been totally spruced up.
Mayor Adams' perverse plan to pave paradise for 123 housing units
October 15, 2024 | 6:37pmMayor Adams is moving full steam ahead with a tragically misguided plan to destroy a beloved community sculpture garden in Lower Manhattan to make way fo🐈r measly 123 “affordable housing”...
Neglected pier immortalized in 'Taxi Driver' transforms into must-visit park with $50M makeover
October 15, 2024 | 5:16pmManhattan Borough President Mark Levine called ൩the pier a “critical missing piece” of green s🦹pace.
'Crazy tourists' are creating a fall foliage frenzy, locals gripe: 'THIS was dangerous'
October 14, 2024 | 4:45pmA popular New Hampshire spot has been overrun with visitors to the point that they are causing rush hour-like bumper-to-bumper traffic — on tr✃ails.
M𒀰an found hanging from tree inside NYC park after 🦹troubling text to roommate: sources
October 10, 2024 | 6:21pmOfficers found the body around 1:30 p♛.m. in a wooded area at Orchard Beach Road and Bartow Circle, after respondin꧅g to a call of a man hanging in the park,...
Addicts shoot up, poop on Bronx street just feet from courthouse: 'Neighborhood is barbaric'
October 5, 2024 | 3:22pm🍨A residential street in The Bronx has become a regular haunt for homeless heroin addicts who shamelessly shoot up and masturbate in broad daylight, just a stone's throw from the...
⛄ Virginia is first state to make leaf-peeping possible for colorblind guests in every park
October 2, 2024 | 2:15amVirginia installs special viewfinders 💫at each of its 43 state parks.
NYC’s first ‘smart' basketball hoop stripped of internet features for this reason
September 30, 2024 | 6:47pmThe city’s first public “sm🎉art” basketball hoop has been stripped of its Internet live-streaming feature at least partly because New Yorkers can’t be trusted not to do something obscene for...
🐷 Wild goose disgrace: NJ 🙈man slapped with animal abuse after fatally crashing e-bike into bird
September 28, 2024 | 8:52amPeople started calling 911 in s💃hock shortly after seeing Andrew Mullins, 30, strike the goose with the motorized bike on Sept. 11, near Pier A Park on Sinatra Drive.
High-rise plans poised to cast shadow over B𝓡rooklyn Botanic Garden get OK from city planners
September 23, 2024 | 5:23pmA controversial high-rise plan that throws shade at the “sacred’’ Brooklyn Botanical Garden — potentially damaging its sensitive exotic plants — got the go-ahead from⭕ the city P♍lanning Commission on...
Man seen being tattooed on ping pong table inches away from playground in NYC park: 'S--t was pretty funny'
September 21, 2024 | 7:41amOn Monday after🧸noon, passersby and park employees alike marveled at a man getting a chest tattoo inside Mathews-Palmer Playground, located between 45th and 46th Streets in Hell's Kitchen.
Animal sacrifices surge in NYC -- with chickens and pigs being mutilated, killed in 'twisted' rituals
September 7, 2024 | 7:52amAnimal sacrifices are surging in Queens, with chickens, pigs and even rats bei🧸ng tortured and set loose and even slaughtered as part of religious rituals.
Most NYC public bathrooms are dirty and lacking toilet paper -- if they're even open
September 6, 2024 | 5:53pmA new city council study on public toilets at Big Apple ꧃parks found tꦕhat many of the 102 toilets examined were dirty or lacked required amenities.
$20 million in taxpayer funds spent on NYC park, dog run that♔ few use thanks to location, homeless druggies
September 1, 2024 | 5:48pmMaspeth Park is in an isolated industrial and manufacturing zone — over a mile from the nearest subway station —and lacks the proper signage and l💖ighting for passers-by to f꧃ind...
NYC debuts new pizza box-friendl🐻y trash cans in the latest sal♛vo in war on rats
August 31, 2024 | 7:53pmIt's pizza boxes only in some trash bins in New York🌃 C꧅ity. The city installed the bins to accommodate stacked pizza boxes, keep the streets tidy and fend off rats.
𝕴 Disturbing details emerge after man pours scalding hot coffee on baby 🍌
August 28, 2024 | 1:26pmHorror new details have emerged aft⛎er a man allegedly poured hot coffee over a baby boy in a Br🐟isbane park.
Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese an♏d Patti Smith join fight to save Little Italy garden from affordable housing ܫ
August 22, 2024 | 7:21pm"Our great city is in danger of becoming a developer's unchecked haven." 𓄧
$45K 'hobo fence' last-ditch effort to keep homeless out of NJ park as some slam 'inhumanity'
August 17, 2024 | 9:43amA Newark politician had a six-foot fence erected around a pub🐽lic park in a last ditch effort to solve the spot's spiraling homeless crisis -- by locking the hobos out.
NYC resi🐷dents sound off over noise, cr🌠owding from concerts at new Under the K Bridge Park
August 8, 2024 | 8:01pmRoughly 20 Brooklyn and Queens residents gathered at a townꦆ hall Wednesday to air out noise and cr✨owding complaints stemming from loud music performances at the Under the K Bridge...
Giant 40-foot slide that went viral for its bum🐠py rides reopens after being closed for two years over safety concerns
July 20, 2024 | 12:46pmThe🐼 six-lane slide at Belle Isle Park in Detroit, MI, which went viral after videos emerged showing riders bouncing along its ramp, ܫreopened Friday.