Tag: Wildfire

A helicopter dropped water on a brush fire in Marine Park on March 8, the start of “spring fire season.”

Brooklyn Parks Ward Off Invasive Plants, Erosion After Brush Fires

By Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper Months after hundreds of brush fires burned through Brooklyn�...

By Brooklyn Paper 03/18/2025 0

A two-alarm fire burned through two acres and caused significant damage in Prospect Park on Nov. 8.

Prospect Park Faces ‘Many Seasons’ of Recovery After Brush Fire

By Kirstyn Brendlen, Brooklyn Paper Days after a highly unusual brush fire broke out in Prospect ...

By Brooklyn Paper 12/04/2024 0

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A Winter Wonderland: Ice Skating and Frosty Frolics in 19th Century Brooklyn

The post-Civil War years were a period of great change in American society. For the first time, an e...

By Suzanne Spellen 12/20/2023 0