Former New York City Parks Department Commissioner Adrian Benepe will now head the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, according to officials, who hailed the greenspace guru as the perfect candidate to lead the ...

The war to save the Brooklyn Botanic Garden from shadows falling from 400-foot tall luxury condominiums is not over, BBG President Adrian Benepe told the Brooklyn Eagle. Even though Community Board 9 ...

Adrian Benepe, the Parks and Recreation Commissioner who helmed the Department for a decade, is leaving to go work at the Trust for Public Land, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Benepe’s job will ...

Crown Heights Keepers won the “greenest block in Brooklyn” prize for their garden on busy Eastern Parkway. By James Barron The ephemeral, exquisite antidote to doomscrolling. By Ginia Bellafante and ...

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden was gifted a peace lantern from the Portland Japanese Garden’s Japan Institute last week as a symbol of peace and cultural exchange. The stone lantern, crafted by ...

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - New York City parks commissioner Adrian Benepe insists the city is committed to keeping new smoke-free zones smoke-free. "Our enforcement officers are out there telling people ...

Visitors to Central Park in recent weeks have had their peace repeatedly disturbed by extremely loud sightseeing helicopters hovering low over the park. Among those aggravated by the chopper activity ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Walking with Adrian Benepe on a picture-perfect day at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, he can point out many of the trees and plants we pass by. Not all of them though. Benepe served as ...

When we first heard about the Red Hook Ballfield vendors were in danger of losing their hold on the space by Red Hook Park’s soccer fields, we sent an impassioned email to Parks Commissioner Adrian ...

Adrian Benepe of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden believes in trees and is highlighting them in a new exhibit. And New York’s City Council is back on the ballot starting Saturday.