Prospect Park Alliance Kicks Off Restoration of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch
Prospect Park Alliance, the nonprofit group that operates the park, is beginning a restoration proje...
Tag: Grand Army Plaza
Kick Off Hanukkah Celebrations With Some Brooklyn Menorah Lightings
Brooklyn communities are marking the first night of Hanukkah this weekend with menorah lightings, fo...
City Mulls Car-Free Redesign for Grand Army Plaza to Boost Pedestrian Safety
The Department of Transportation is considering remaking Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza as a car-free...
Brooklyn Students Rally at Grand Army Plaza to Demand Gun Reform
“School shootings are not the norm! We need immediate reform!” That was the message on Friday...
Prospect Park Installation From Artist Mary Mattingly Addresses City’s Drinking Watershed
The subject of Brooklyn-based artist Mary Mattingly’s latest sculpture, “Public Water,” curren...
A Human Fly Once Inched Up the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch
On a late September afternoon in 1918, a behatted gentleman dressed all in white began inching his w...
Crafting the Ideal: The City Beautiful Movement in Brooklyn
Editor’s note: This story is an update of one that ran in 2009. Read the original here. At the ...
Kick Off Hanukkah Celebrations With the Largest Menorah in Brooklyn
It's been presiding over Hanukkah celebrations at Grand Army Plaza for over thirty years and it's ti...
The Grand Army Plaza Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch Lights Up the Night
While traffic hurled around Grand Army Plaza Monday night a small group cast their eyes on the memor...
Float Some Ideas With Democracy Lab at Grand Army Plaza
A bubble-like pavilion will be touching down by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch for a week of ci...
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