He called his new neighborhood Borough Park. In the mid-1920s, largely because of a real-estate boom, Borough Park grew to the point where it encompassed Blythebourne.

Borough Park is home to nearly 300 synagogues and 50 religious schools, or yeshivas, but its status as an enclave of Orthodox Judaism was a long work in progress. Like many other Brooklyn ...

The proposal from the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, which is backed by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Councilmember Lincoln Restler, would reimagine Cadman Plaza and Columbus Park ...

"Old urban forests are in many ways the most unlikely old forests in existence. It's miraculous that this forest is here," ...