Parks

The city is testing out a green roof on a bus shelter in Brownsville, with the hope that the design can be expanded across the five boroughs.

If I start doing bodyweight strength exercises now, I could postpone the day where it becomes really painful to bend down and pick stuff up.

Ice cream trucks can jam their jingles as long as they're in motion. But once they stop, the music has to stop, too.

Entire bushes and trees are blooming from tiny patches of dirt across the five boroughs, turning the concrete jungle into a verdant paradise.

The Ridgewood Reservoir supplied drinking water to Brooklyn in the 1800s. Now, officials hope it will act as a sponge to mitigate flooding.

Arsenic and mercury were detected in the popular play area for pups.

The man had drawn a crowd of about a dozen people.

The proposal from two local business owners would transform the park, which features a sweeping view of the Manhattan skyline.

Neighbors described seeing the girl with the firework just before it exploded.

Lifeguards had finished work at 6 p.m. but had remained at their station houses nearby because the city’s heat emergency plan was active on Sunday.