parks department

The Parks Department is alright with managing the green space in Greenpoint Landing, just as long as this doesn’t include mowing the lawn. Greenpoint...

The city’s deal to buy Kensington Stables in Brooklyn from its longtime owners is off. The Blankenship family, which is selling the stable at...

The battle of the Coney Island beachfront bathrooms just took another turn.

Donald Trump’s public golf course in the Bronx is now projected to cost $236 million to complete, more than 10 times the original cost...

The city is planning to dish out $2.3 million on improvements to a Red Hook park that has seen better days. The Parks Department...

Residents of a Brighton Beach condominium are up in arms over high-tech toilets planned for their stretch of the Coney Island Boardwalk.

A court has given the Parks Department the green light to allow a seasonal restaurant to set up shop inside Union Square Park. Locals...

 Mayor Bloomberg’s most enduring gift to New York City’s real estate industry may be rezoning much of the five boroughs. But when Bill de...

Lawyers for residents of Soho and the West Village made their case to a Manhattan judge over why the city skirted the law by...

The newly-formed Save Our Village neighborhood group recently plastered the Village with posters accusing the city of selling corporate naming rights to the Washington...

UPDATED, 6:50 p.m., May 21: Area residents have sued Lincoln Center and the city in an effort to halt the transfer of Damrosch Park,...

A city-owned former landfill in the Bronx is set to becomes an 18-hole golf course, but high levels of methane gas recently detected on...

Parks Department commissioner Adrian Benepe and a rendering of the Finger Building in WilliamsburgThe very same measures the city put in place to spur...

Local officials and residents in Jackson Heights held an emergency community meeting Wednesday in an attempt to prevent a 29,000-square-foot athletic field across from...

Hudson River Park, the five-mile waterfront band stretching from Battery Park to 59th Street, is so short on cash that City Parks Commissioner Adrian...