One of New York City’s most famously dog-friendly bar, The Gate, in Park Slope says it will no longer allow them because it was busted under the city’s outdated health code.
Keep reading Dogs Can No Longer Walk into Famous Brooklyn Bar
 Heroic green heron parents endured days of hipster music and foodies when their eggs were about to hatch. Now two chicks are learning to eat regurgitated fish and walk on branches of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Keep reading Green heron nest survived Googa Mooga  Non-denominational waterfowl feeding. I went out last week hoping to see the Orthodox Jews throwing their leavened bread at the Prospect Park geese before Passover. The Prospect Park Alliance publicly notified them not to try to foist off their chametz on the waterfowl feeding. That ticked off the community, who denied any such plans., to the New York Times and the Brooklyn Paper. So I headed over to the prime duck-feeding spot on the lake in Prospect Park on both the eve and morning of Passover. Let’s be honest, I was hoping for a spectacle: maybe 10 guys in 5 kinds of fur hats, surrounded by their collective 87 children and 10 wives in perfect wigs, all hurling bags of bread at grateful Canada geese. The aggressive swan family that lives there might charge them. A Park Slope mom might passive-aggressively read the sign about not feeding the waterfowl outloud to her kids. The pushy Peking ducks that follow bird feeders away from the lake might try to follow these generous Jews all the way home to Borough Park. Instead I got absolutely no visible Hasidim at the spot where people and ducks have come to agree is the best spot for feeding, the southwest corner of the lake. (I also looked around the shore and by the boathouse.) That’s not to say I didn’t see plenty of visibly Orthodox Jews feeding ducks earlier this spring. Sometimes there were even two men in formal garb. But mostly, just Keep reading Trip to see Orthodox Jews in Pre-Passover duck-feeding frenzy a big disappointment  Beagles will climb a tree if you smear it with peanut butter. Keep reading How to play the peanut butter tree game with your hounds  A snapping turtle a couple feet across may live in the lullwater of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Keep reading A garbage can lid sized snapping turtle in Prospect Park?  By calling manta rays a vulnerable species, scientists hope to stop or at least track the market in its gills. Used in Chinese medicine, the ray population is down 30% in 10 years. Keep reading Manta rays get some protection from fishermen hunting their gills  Monarch butterflies are migrating through New York City on their way down the East Coast to Florida and maybe Mexico. A bush on 7th Avenue in Parks Slope draws them in. Keep reading Migrating Monarchs stop at Brooklyn’s best butterfly bush  If you have the chance, help turtles cross roads. Otherwise, avoid certain shrimp caught overseas (or maybe in LA) til shrimpers start really using turtle exclusion devices Keep reading How to Celebrate World Turtle Day: Avoid Shrimp Caught Overseas (or maybe in LA)  About one-third of Americans who get leprosy can probably blame their contact with a coastal armadillo. Doctors linked their strain to the armadillo while other patients had overseas varieties. About half remembered armadillo contact, typically hunting and eating. Keep reading Armadillo contact (like hunting) linked to 1 in 3 US leprosy cases  Feral hogs are now in NY. The USDA says they come from game farms, especially one on the PA-NY border. Keep reading Feral hogs now roam NY, thanks to releases by hunters |
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