BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Two sisters from Brooklyn Heights, 9-year-old Nell and 5-year-old Edie Hamontree, led the countdown and shook the sleigh bells Wednesday night to officially light the 25-foot ...
There are 600,000 pieces of living history in Brooklyn: trees. They fill the borough’s parks, line its streets, and shade its playgrounds and schoolyards, but their contributions often go unnoticed.