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McCarren Park’s track and field have reopened

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      View this post on Instagram She’s back, and better than ever! Lace up your sneaks, the McCarren Track is finally open again after nearly a year of repairs! 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ A post shared by North Brooklyn Runners (@northbrooklynrunners) on Jan 28, 2019 at 3:16pm PST Of course it’s way too cold to even […]

McCarren Park’s 2018 SummerScreen lineup announced

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  Another peek at a poster for this season of @summerscreen in McCarren Park ! A personal fave, Jawbreaker, will be screening on July 11th💕 A post shared by Bethany Robertson (@loveless_designs) on Jun 12, 2018 at 12:13pm PDT It’s almost that time of year again. Yes, the 13th annual SummerScreen hits McCarren Park July […]

New restaurant by the Frankel’s deli team has opened in the Park Luncheonette space

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We still miss Park Luncheonette, the corner cafe overlooking McCarren Park had some of our favorite pizza in the neighborhood. That said, we’re excited to try Bernie’sm which opened on Tuesday. The 50-seat restaurant is from the team behind the stellar Frankel’s deli and the focus is on old school dishes like Shrimp Cocktail, Baked Clams, […]

Photos: It’s springtime in the Burg

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It’s the first week of spring and NYC looks like Siberia. For anyone viewing this post after the year 2018, yes this post is real. There used to be something called snow and these are pictures that were all taken during springtime. Here’s some of the best pics from around the neighborhood: Brooklyn’s version of […]

McCarren Park used to have a farm?

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Before McCarren Park housed kickball and day drinking, it housed a farm (pictured above). From Untapped Cities: In 1914, the park became the site of the first children’s farm in Brooklyn. During the farm’s first season, 240 “little farmers” attended to 120 plots of land that were each 8’x4′. There, they grew a range of […]