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When skaters exit the elevated park, many of the good skaters will come down this stairway adjacent to one of the entrances to the Brooklyn Public Library. This is a potential danger point, as many children use this entrance to the library.Photos: Wayne Daren Schneiderman/Brooklyn Eagle

‘This is going to be a nightmare’:
‘Skate Garden’ proposed for Brooklyn’s Mt. Prospect Park met with public resistance       

February 9 | Wayne Daren Schneiderman  

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — If you build it, they won’t come. In an exclusive interview with the Brooklyn Eagle, local residents of Prospect Heights expressed collective outrage, vehemently disagreeing with the proposed idea to build a 40,000-square-foot skate park in their backyard. Slated to be entitled the “Brooklyn Skate Garden,” positioned in the middle of Brooklyn’s […]

Pictured from left to right: District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, Richard Beavers, Leroy Campbell, NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella and Dr. Myrah Brown-Green at DA Black History celebration.Photos courtesy of the Brooklyn DA’s Office

Brooklyn DA celebrates Black History Month with art and justice conversation

February 9 | Robert Abruzzese, Courthouse Editor

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office hosted an event at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, that commemorated Black History Month with an engaging discussion titled “In Conversation with Leroy Campbell: A Discussion on Art’s Intersectionality with History and Social Justice.” The event, held in the museum’s American Art Gallery, featured a dialogue between acclaimed artist Leroy […]

Robotics League Finals 2024

Kings Bay Library takes top honors in Brooklyn Robotics League Championship

February 7 | Special from the Brooklyn Public Library

Full slideshow below GRAND ARMY PLAZA — Kings Bay Library took top honors in Brooklyn Public Library’s robotics championship over the weekend, besting 15 teams from libraries around the borough for first place. Cortelyou Library and New Lots Library took second and third place respectively. The Brooklyn Public Library Robotics League, in partnership with NYC […]