Lefferts Historic House is one of the few surviving Dutch Colonial farmhouses in Brooklyn, now located six blocks north of its original site on Flatbush Avenue. year round family oriented programming makes the Lefferts House a great place to visit anytime, but it is especially fun at Harvest Time.

Lefferts House in Prospect Park

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The Boardwalk on Staten Island reopens after carpenters repair damage from Hurricane Sandy.

Under the Boardwalk

The sculpture exhibition "Lightness of Being" is on view in City Hall Park through December.

Art in City Hall Park

NYC Parks partnered with local community organizations and City agencies to paint jersey barriers that were placed on Shore Front Parkway from Beach 74th to Beach 107th Streets to protect pedestrians and bicyclists in the absence of the Rockaway boardwalk, which was significantly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

The Longest Mural

The first phase of the sand replacement project at Rockaway Beach has begun.

Pumped in the Rockaways

Ghanim Khalil, an Urban Park Ranger with NYC Parks in Willowbrook Park, Staten Island, explains how to identify and avoid poison ivy, aka Toxicodendron radicans.

Lefferts House in Prospect Park

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