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Prospect Park is a 526-acre (2.13 km 2) urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Willink Entrance to Prospect Park. The Willink Entrance area, also known as Willink Plaza, [1] is a major urban square of Brooklyn, New York City, formed by the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Ocean Avenue and Empire Boulevard, at the eastern corner of Prospect Park [2] and the southern corner of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
The B16 bus route follows it between 86th Street and either 56th Street (Bay Ridge), or 57th Street (Prospect Park). Where the parkway is one-way northbound, southbound buses use the adjacent 7th Avenue. The Brownsville-bound B8 runs from Marine Avenue to 92nd Street.
Local department store Abraham & Straus announced in January 1965 that it would establish a children's farm next to the Lefferts Historic House to celebrate the park's centennial. [15] [16] Abraham & Straus provided up to $100,000 for the project, which was part of a larger $450,000 project to renovate Prospect Park.
The Prospect Park station is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in between Lincoln Road, Lefferts Avenue, Empire Boulevard, Ocean Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, near the border of Crown Heights. Prospect Lefferts Gardens, which is a subsection of Flatbush, is adjacent to the ...
435 East 57th Street 1927 435 East 57th Street: 35 Prospect Park West 1929 Prospect Park; Brooklyn: Hotel St. George: 1930 100 Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights: Hotel St. Moritz: 1930 50 Central Park South: 993 Fifth Avenue 1930 993 Fifth Avenue 784 Park Avenue 1930 784 Park Avenue: The San Remo: 1930 145 and 146 Central Park West
Prospect Park 40°39′39″N 73°57′55″W / 40.660833°N 73.965278°W / 40.660833; -73.965278 ( Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect 25
Battle Pass in 1792, with tree stumps still visible Dongan Oak Monument at Battle Pass in 2009 Battle Pass in 1866, shortly before the creation of Prospect Park. Battle Pass, formerly known as Flatbush Pass or Valley Grove or The Porte, is a historic hill pass that played a significant part in the 1776 Battle of Long Island, and that is currently part of Prospect Park in Brooklyn.