While jogging in Prospect Park yesterday, Kate Steciw came across the deathly tableau above sitting behind a wrought-iron fence. Grisly murder scene? Late funeral party for the Nets' 2014 playoffs performance? Some Pratt undergrad's dumb art project? (Probably.)
All of Brooklyn's Prospect Park will be closed for much of tomorrow for President Obama. But where will the nannies go?? UPDATE: Only part of the park will be shut down, according to a statement posted to the park's website.
ABC's canceled soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live have been snatched from certain death by Prospect Park, a production company that will move the long-running serial dramas onto the internet. Thank God, Susan Lucci will still have a job!
Oh my god! The Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn has two baby baboons, and they are so cute. They also don't have names, and the zoo is holding a contest to name them. Do you want to watch them play?
The Agriculture Department rounded up 400 Canada geese in Brooklyn's Prospect Park last week and killed them so they'd stop flying into jet engines. One Brooklyn resident said it looked like the geese had "been Photoshopped out." [NYT; pic]
[The sun returned to New York this weekend, as you can see in this photo, taken yesterday in Prospect Park; image via jeepeenyc's Flickr]
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