By Elizabeth Van Metre on April 26, 2017
Brooklyn, fishing, housing, NYC, Prospect Park, rent
Brooklyn, Lens on New Yorkers
There’s nothing like kicking back, baiting up and enjoying a little fishing on a nice day. Just ask George Hayes, who has been fishing in Prospect Park since 1963. The Brooklyn native has seen the park at its best and at its worse. He says there was a time that he wouldn’t even enter the […]
By Elizabeth Van Metre on March 3, 2017
ash wedneday, Brooklyn, catholic, New York City, NYC
Brooklyn, Multimedia, NY City Scene, Religion, Video
Just 40 percent of U.S. adults raised Catholic still regularly attend mass — but many took to pews on Ash Wednesday to mark the start of Lent
By Elizabeth Van Metre on February 16, 2017
Brooklyn, Coney Island, Lens on New Yorkers, NYC, snow, storm niko
Brooklyn, Lens on New Yorkers, Multimedia, Video
Not everyone used last week’s winter storm as an excuse to stay in bed.
By Elizabeth Van Metre on January 31, 2017
Cops & Courts
A police insider though says the boost might not be as much as some in the department would like
