FROM April 2014, when the trees were still bare, comes this photo of the unique Camperdown Elm in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. In the years before moving to Flushing in 1993,…
Prospect Park
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The NYC subway has its share of “station houses” originally built to let people wait for trains, if they didn’t want to do so on the platforms, if they chose.…
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I’ve mentioned it before, but as a kid, maybe between 4 and 9 years of age, one parent or another took me for joyrides on local buses in Bay Ridge…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On the south side of Prospect Park is a 40-acre superblock that opened shortly after the park and designated as a military parade ground.…
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Unusual chill for April kept crowd numbers down for this lively tour of southern Prospect Park, but we were rewarded with an informative 2.5 hour walk circumnavigating the Prospect Park…
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Ludwig von Beethoven Concert Grove is a formal European-style garden designed to look out over a small island in Prospect Park Lake containing a performance stage where the popular bands…
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Concert Grove is a formal European-style garden designed to look out over a small island in Prospect Park Lake containing a performance stage where the popular bands of the day…
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Quaker Hill, along Center Drive near the park entrance at Prospect Park Southwest and 16th Street contains a cemetery that was established by the Society of Friends before Prospect Park…
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Prospect Park’s Music Pagoda sits at the north end of the Nethermead and just south of the “wilderness” (actually a carefully-crafted region) known as the Ravine. The Pagoda is an…
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The IND Subway connecting 6th Avenue, Manhattan and Church Avenue, Brooklyn, opened on July 1, 1933 (and was later connected to the Culver El in the 1950s). Along this line,…
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Prospect Park has a number of surprises that were in place long before the Park was created in the 1870s. One of these is Litchfield Villa, just inside the entrance…
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The Music Pagoda is an octagonal-shaped structure, with columns in groups of two and three, built in 1887 just west of the Nethermead, Prospect Park’s wide central lawn. Its base consists…