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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flag-waving pro-Palestine and pro-Israel demonstrators clashed in Borough Park Tuesday night during a demonstration outside a real estate expo. The pro-Palestine activists, led by the Pal-Awda group, ...

IN late September, during the final days of the weeklong holiday of Sukkot, young boys in white shirts and black hats could often be seen lining the streets of Borough Park, a large neighborhood in ...

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 ...

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police in Brooklyn are investigating a string of possible assaults in Borough Park, and while it's unclear if the incidents are related or motivated by hate, many in ...

From the October issue: Gentrification may be synonymous with Brooklyn at this point, but the seemingly unstoppable phenomenon has yet to overtake Borough Park. The Orthodox Jewish enclave nestled in ...