The park has hosted New Year’s Eve fireworks for 44 years. File photo courtesy of Prospect Park Alliance/Andrew Gardner. Prospect Park has welcomed the new year with midnight fireworks for 44 years.

About 100 firefighters were called to put out a two-acre brush fire in a heavily wooded section of Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Friday night, prompting officials to warn residents to stay away as ...

Forty firefighters responded to a blaze near the LeFrak ice skating rink at about 2:40 p.m. and put out the flames by 3:22 p.m. An earlier fire nearby burned a 2-acre wooded area.