Prospect Park
History: Opened to the public in October of 1867, added to National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Original plan to build the park was created on April 18, 1859.
Park Size: 585 acres.
Interesting facts:
1. Prospect Park is located between Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Garden, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden.
2. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, same men who completed Manhattan’s Central Park.
3. There is a private cemetery on the park’s Quaker Hill. The name of this cemetery is “Society of Friends”.
4. Prospect Park contains Brooklyn’s only lake, spanning 60 acres.
5. The park also contains Prospect Park Zoo, The Boathouse (housing a visitors center and the first urban Audubon Center), the Prospect Park Bandshell that hosts free outdoor concerts in the summertime, and seven baseball fields.
Website: http://www.prospectpark.org/
