The 2.3-mile sidewalk, proposed back in 2016, has sparked disagreement between residents who value safety and those who want to preserve the area’s natural character.

Sidewalk gardens are often inconvenient to irrigate, and there’s the issue of their use as pit stops for dog walkers, to put it delicately. This kind of garden tends to look best when the plants in ...

In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an animal lover thought she was doing the right thing by freeing fish from a sidewalk pit. The man who created the pond saw it differently. By Christopher Maag The great ...

The 2.3-mile sidewalk, proposed back in 2016, has sparked disagreement between residents who value safety and those who want to preserve the area’s natural character.