A garbage dump that has festered at an entrance to a Brooklyn park throughout the summer caught on fire on Tuesday after city officials said a lithium-ion battery nestled in its depths burst into flames.
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De facto dump in Brooklyn bursts into flames after discarded battery explodes
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Summer of smell at Sunset Park: City creates de facto dump at Brooklyn greenspace
The city parks department has turned a stretch of Brooklyn’s Sunset Park into a de facto garbage dump in order to handle all the trash collected from the popular green space each weekend.
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Decades-old NYC policy requires NYPD to open public pools, leading to frequent delays
City data shows parks department employees reported cops were late to their shifts during 214 pool sessions last summer, which breaks down to nearly three incidents per day over the course of the season.
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Here are the dead animals New Yorkers found in Prospect Park over the last 4 years
Visitors to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park are reporting dead animals in increasing numbers, according to parks department records obtained via a freedom of information request.
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Parks advocates gearing up to yell at Mamdani over proposed budget cuts
On the campaign trail, Zohran Mamdani vowed to roughly double the funding for the parks department. His first budget proposal as mayor would cut its funding.
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Construction to kick off on bike lane upgrades next to Prospect Park
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made moves to expedite the installation of new bike lanes across the city, many of which were sidelined under his predecessor Eric Adams.
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The social media influencers now run Washington Square Park
The park, which for decades was known as a hub of counterculture and an anchor for protests in the city, has now been overrun with social media influencers looking to go viral.
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Prospect Park’s secluded Vale of Cashmere getting long-awaited upgrade
The quiet corner of the park is well known to birdwatchers, but fell into disrepair after years of neglect.
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Development would bring public pool to West Village as historic rec center remains busted
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Restore or replace? Fight over historic West Village rec center and pool drags on.
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Stretch of Rockaway shoreline on Jamaica Bay needs ‘aggressive repairs,’ feds say
A mile-long bulkhead in the Rockaways has been eaten away by the churning waters of Jamaica Bay and requires “aggressive” repairs that could take five years, federal documents show.
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These NYC pools kept closing last summer after people pooped in them
New York City’s public pools turned into toilets at a surprisingly high rate last summer, as the parks department was forced to close its swimming holes 203 times to clean up a visitor’s poop.
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Dangerous section of Jacob Riis beach likely to remain off-limits this summer
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Jacob Riis Beach boardwalk to get badly needed repairs this fall
The National Park Service, which runs the federally owned portion of Rockaway, announced the $2.7 million refurbishment of the dilapidated concrete path just east of the beach’s 92-year-old bathhouse on Wednesday. Officials said crews will resurface the boardwalk, build a new wheelchair-accessible ramp near the bathhouse and replace 20 benches.
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7 drowned at NYC beaches this summer. Most grew up in the city without access to pools.
A Gothamist analysis of city data found that six of the seven drowning victims this summer lived in districts where fewer than half of residents have access to swimming facilities within 15 minutes by public transit.
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‘We are in a state of emergency’: 6th drowning reported at NYC beaches this summer
A 26-year-old man drowned at Rockaway Beach last Wednesday while lifeguards were on duty, bringing the total number of people who have died along New York City’s shoreline this summer to six.
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Erosion is causing ‘extremely hazardous’ conditions on Riis Beach, where 2 teens were swept to sea
Erosion is rapidly washing away the shoreline of Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway — and the National Park Service says the ongoing problem has created “extremely hazardous” swimming conditions in an area of the beach where two teenage boys were swept out to sea last week.
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Hundreds stuck waiting for reopened Astoria Pool that Mayor Adams just deemed a success
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NYC treading water as lifeguard shortage lingers for another summer
