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Each September since 2019, [12] the Brooklyn Public Library sponsors an Open Air University with free non-accredited courses on the Boathouse grounds, hosting immigrant professors, academics, and teachers who were trained outside of the U.S. [13] [14]
Prospect Park Audubon Center at the Boathouse: Brooklyn: Brooklyn: New York City: 585-acre park, center is a partnership between the Prospect Park Alliance and Audubon New York: Quogue Wildlife Refuge: Quogue: Suffolk: Long Island: 305 acres, managed by the Southampton Township Wildfowl Association, includes Charles Banks Belt Nature Center
Ring-billed gull at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Prospect Park is considered the flagship New York City Park in Brooklyn, and the most active birding location. The NYC Bird Alliance operates an educational center in the park's boathouse. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, just northeast of Prospect Park, has long organized bird-related events. [8]
The Battle Pass area from the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), an etching circa 1792. Approximately 17,000 years ago, the terminal moraine of the receding Wisconsin Glacier that formed Long Island, known as the Harbor Hill Moraine, established a string of hills and kettles in the northern part of the park and a lower lying outwash plain in the southern part.
The Audubon Park Historic District is located on five blocks in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is roughly bounded by West 155th Street to the south, West 158th Street to the north, Broadway and Edward M. Morgan Place to the east and Riverside Drive West to the west.
Attractions include the Long Meadow, a 90-acre (36 ha) meadow, the Picnic House, which houses offices and a hall that can accommodate parties with up to 175 guests; Litchfield Villa, Prospect Park Zoo, the Boathouse, housing a visitors center and the first urban Audubon Center; [129] Brooklyn's only lake, covering 60 acres (24 ha); the Prospect ...
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NYC Bird Alliance (formerly New York City Audubon) is an American non-profit environmental organization incorporated in 1979. The group undertakes a variety of activities to protect wild birds and their habitats in New York City. With nearly 10,000 members, it is one of the largest organizations in the Audubon movement.