Friends Forever

Hello, reader of this page. Welcome to Brooklyn, and especially to Friends Field, a glorious little park in Midwood, Brooklyn, that is the subject of this wiki.

Friends Field on Google maps.

This past semester, I conducted a research project on Friends Field, a gem of a park off of Ocean Parkway and Avenue L. Most people out of the neighborhood have never visited the park.

Friends Field is a beautiful park with an equally beautiful (in a historical sense) past. I chose to explore its history for my honors class, The Peopling of New York. This wiki is the culmination of my study. I hope you have as much fun exploring this site as I did doing research for it.

I divided the history of Friends Field into three sections:

Prologue: Sounder Bodies and Surer Morals: This page is about the origins of the park as a place of recreation and growth for its visitors. I frame the park's establishment as a corroboration of Brooklyn's progress as a borough of the city with its own unique cultural birthright.

A Counter to Drug Use and Street Crime: This is the main page and examines the changes to the park in the 1970s. I posit that the turmoil Friends Field faced at the time was reflected in the uncertainty and disorder that plagued the City of New York.

Epilogue: What Now?: This is all about the park today, with an examination of park maintenance, the field house, and demographics of the area.

About Me: This page is about me.