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Reviews are still coming in for GoogaMooga, the elaborate foodie-centric festival held in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park last weekend. Complaints have focused on long lines and food shortages and now attention has turned to how the festival affected the park itself.

New York City's Memorial Day observances included both parades and solemn ceremonies. And with sunny skies and temperatures reaching the mid-80s, thousands of people spent their Memorial Day holiday at New York's parks and beaches.

All subpoenas in the lawsuit against Brooklyn’s Prospect Park West bike lane have been withdrawn and the lawsuit is now awaiting judicial action. No new court dates have been set.

Widely considered to be the leading ambassador of Wassoulou music, Oumou Sangaré brings her impassioned rhythms and inspirational lyrics to Prospect Park on Friday night. Download the West African song "Wele Wele Wintou" from her 2009 release Seya here.

The New York Philharmonic's announcement on Tuesday that it is cancelling its annual round of free concerts in city parks this summer has been met with mixed reviews from fans, writers and affiliated business owners. What do you think? Take our poll.

Brooklyn became the latest testing ground Thursday to bring back the chestnut tree, once a crowning glory of the American timber supply, yielding masts on sailboats, railroad ties and barn doors aplenty, that has struggled to survive a fatal blight introduced to the East Coast about 100 years ago.

Jim Walden, attorney with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, provides pro bono represenation to Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes. He talks about the lawsuit which seeks to remove the Prospect Park West bike lane and the implications for bike lane battles citywide.

Park Slope residents and cycling advocates led two boisterous rallies on Thursday, over the future of a protected bike lane along Prospect Park West.

Prospect Park has over eight million visitors a year. On Monday mornings, there is often lots of trash left behind. Garry Osgood decided to do something about it.

The boisterous vaudeville-flavored duo open for Carl Davis and the Brooklyn Philharmonic at tonight's Celebrate Brooklyn performance at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Download their exuberant tune "Prime Numbers."

NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe talks about why Prospect Park is the perfect place for a Woodstock reunion concert, camping in the city parks (even for people who have place to sleep usually), canoeing on the Gowanus and more.

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Prospect Park on a snowy morning can have an almost 19th Century, Washington Irving, feel. At least as you come into it. There aren’t too many sounds of the city that make it through the woods and the wind into the Long Meadow. And before you approach the people and their pooches and see all the Gore-Tex human and dog coats, you can imagine the place looked pretty similar in pre-modern times. You could probably hold onto that illusion for longer than I did, if you had better boots than I was wearing, went for a short hike on the Lullwater trail, and really let the forest surround you.