Photo by Ben Muessig/Gothamist Yesterday Brooklyn Bridge Park was under attack after the metal orbs designed for their play area got so hot (128 degrees!) they were scorching skin. The park promptly put tents over them,...

Photo by Ben Muessig/Gothamist It's not a prison playground, but Brooklyn Bridge Park's metal climbing domes have parents scorching mad. The domes, part of the playground at the new park, may have looked innocent enough on...

Yesterday afternoon, an 18-year-old man was stabbed to death near Prospect Park after a "confrontation with a group of men over a girl." According to the NY Times, the victim had been speaking with a girl...

A reader sent in these photos from Riverside Park—one from tot lot 110 at Riverside and 110th Street, and the other from tot lot 108 at Riverside and 108th Street. Is this some sort of exercise...

Monifa Bandele/Black & Brown News We're on day three of jungle jail gate, and the opinions, outrage and depressing quotes from children continue to pour in. While many are calling for the prison-themed playground to be...

Monifa Bandele/Black & Brown News That controversial prison-themed playground at the Tompkins Houses in Bed-Stuy has been there for six years, but has only just now caused enough outrage to get some press and set a...

A new playground should be something to celebrate... except when the city puts a big ol' jail-themed jungle gym in the middle of a Bed-Stuy Housing Authority property. Black and Brown News reported on the new...

Here's a way to find out if your neighborhood is kid-friendly. The website PlayaroundNYC has assembled a map charting the locations of playgrounds and their distances from major and minor truck routes. The areas that are...

Bitchcakesny's Flickr The Hasidic community in South Williamsburg may have discouraged immodestly dressed bike riders by getting rid of the Bedford Avenue bike lane, but is the neighborhood now free from kidnappers, too? One rabbi apparently...

Courtesy Curbed They finally did it; they finally killed those weird and almost iconic asphalt mounds in Washington Square Park, destroying them with the cool efficiency of a doctor lancing a boil. Which they most certainly...

Original photo via nicholasian's flickr Last year around this time we got word that the East River State Park in Williamsburg would be shutting down for the winter months to save up some money. This year...

The man whom cops allegedly sodomized in a Brooklyn subway station last October says police are still on his tail. 24-year-old Michael Mineo claims he was innocently relaxing on a bench in a Canarsie playground Monday...

Hey did you know Tom Otterness makes playgrounds? Just one of his many quirky hobbies. Curbed points out that the massive Silver Towers rising on Eleventh Avenue in Hell's Kitchen have launched a website, which promises...

The family and friends of slain dentist Daniel Malakov yelled at murder suspect Mikhail Mallayev (pictured) in a Queens courtroom yesterday. Malakov was gunned down last year when he was dropping off his daughter to his ex-wife...

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced this morning that they had arrested a suspect in the murder of orthodontist Daniel Malakov. Kelly said that the suspect, Mikhail Mallayev, was a relative (by marriage) of Malakov's ex-wife. Malakov was shot in the chest after just after dropping his 4-year-old daughter Michelle to his ex-wife at a Queens playground on Sunday morning. He and his wife, Dr. Mazeltuv Borukhova, had been embroiled in a bitter divorce and custody...

The daughter of Daniel Malakov, the orthodontist who was killed on a playground by a gunman wielding a pistol with a homemade silencer, has been placed in foster care. The girl's physician mother and her family are suspects in the Queens-man's murder. Malakov was shot in front of his daughter in a Queens playground just six days after he'd gained legal custody of his daughter following a bitter custody dispute. A judge at the Queens...

Cops have a suspect in the shooting of orthodontist dad Daniel Malakov and released a sketch of his playground shooter. Malakov was killed by a gunman who shot him at point blank range with a pistol; the shooting left a handmade silencer fashioned from a bleach bottle wrapped in duct tape. The killing is believed to be related to a bitter custody dispute between Malakov and his ex-wife Mazoltuv Borukhova. Because the murder took place...

The custody battle over Michelle Malakov, a 4-year-old who witnessed her father being shot to death at a Queens playground, continued in Queens Family Court. And the testimony of State Senator Diane Savino underlined how the dispute between the slain man's family and his ex-wife has gone almost full-tilt crazy. Queens dentist Daniel Malakov had been awarded temporary custody of his daughter for about a week. On October 28, he was dropping her off to...

Last Sunday morning, Daniel Malakov was fatally shot three times in the chest just after dropping off his daughter to his ex-wife, Marina Borukhova. While the police have no suspects in his murder, much attention has been drawn to contentious custody battle he had with Borukhova over their 5-year-old daughter Michelle. And with his death, the fight has gotten messier. Malakov had been given temporary custody of Michelle just before his death. The child was...

Thrilled that he'd finally won custody of his five-year-old daughter Michelle after a bitter custody battle, orthodontist Michael Malakov asked his father to snap a few pictures of him and his girl just a few minutes before...

Police suspect that the daytime murder of a Queens orthodontist may be related to the custody of his daughter. A long and bitter divorce battle had granted temporary custody of five-year-old Michelle to 34-year-old orthodontist Daniel Malakov....

An orthodontist was killed while taking his 5-year-old daughter to the Annadale playground at Flushing Meadows Park. Around 11AM, Daniel Malakov was shot in the chest twice by someone who witnesses say was wearing a black fleece....