Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature. Borough Park — sometimes written as Boro Park — is a quiet ...

BOROUGH PARK — AN ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST is planned for Tuesday evening in Borough Park. Organized by protest group PAL-Awda, the demonstration opposes an event known as the Israel Real Estate Expo, held ...

Nick and Lilly, both of Nazareth, travel Wednesday, April 12, 2023, along the walking trail at Nazareth Borough Park. The park began in 1935 as a Works Progress Administration project. (April ...

The Orthodox Jewish enclave nestled in the borough’s southwest corner has largely shielded itself from high-rise towers and large commercial hubs. In addition to limited buildable land, there’s a ...

It’s a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn of about 150,000 people, sharing borders with Kensington, Bensonhurst, and Sunset Park. It’s bound by Ninth Avenue to the west, McDonald and 21st avenues ...

One of the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish populations outside of Israel is right here in B’KLYN. We’re talking about Borough Park, the fascinating neighborhood south of Green-Wood Cemetery and east ...

Queens-based Montperia Group is planning to build in another borough — Borough Park, actually. A limited liability company tied to the Woodside-based developer filed a rezoning application with the ...

The bank branch-building boom is long over in most parts of the city—but not in Borough Park, Brooklyn, one of New York's largest Orthodox Jewish communities. Just as people in Manhattan find a ...

It began with the discovery of a trove of historic documents long forgotten in the back recesses of an art cupboard. A package was unwrapped to reveal carefully handwritten attendance records and ...