It may take years for Prospect Park wildlife to return after area torched by NYC brush fire: experts
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It may take years for Prospect Park wildlife to return after area torched by NYC brush fire: experts

ByNews Polite

The two-acre wooded stretch of Prospect Park has been eerily quiet in the week since it was torched by a shocking bush-fire. Scores of squirrels, birds, raccoons, skunks and other critters that call the Brooklyn oasis home were forced to flee the burned sector — and it could take years…

Gen Z’s new go-to date night mixes booze with crafts, eliminating ‘awkward’ hangouts with activities, art and ‘liquid courage’
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Gen Z’s new go-to date night mixes booze with crafts, eliminating ‘awkward’ hangouts with activities, art and ‘liquid courage’

ByNews Polite

This is the new go-to Gen-Z date night —  and there’s plenty of mixing going on. Hangouts where couples combine booze with activities like painting or pumpkin carving are exploding in popularity across the Big Apple as some say the unlikely pairings eliminate “awkward” first-date jitters with the help of…

NYC’s beloved Elizabeth Street Garden gets stay of eviction as activists fight to ‘protect and preserve’
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NYC’s beloved Elizabeth Street Garden gets stay of eviction as activists fight to ‘protect and preserve’

ByNews Polite

Manhattan’s beloved Elizabeth Street Garden got a lifeline Friday when a judge granted a stay of eviction sought by activists of the greenspace while they appeal the city’s decision to build affordable housing at the site, according to the group. The appellate court’s decision to pause the eviction and demolition…