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Heading north brings us to the flagship park of the borough of Brooklyn, Prospect Park. The park is centrally located and essentially all neighborhoods circumnavigate it. It seperates the western neighborhoods from eastern Brooklyn and northern Brooklyn from the center of the Borough and the southern neighborhoods.

At the northern entrance to the park is a smaller pocket park and grand arch. This entrance to the park is called Grand Army Plaza and it connects the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Crown Heights

Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza









Soldiers and Sailors Arch of the Grand Army Plaza, Eastern Parkway side of Prospect Park




Brooklyn’s very own Prospect Park

At 585 acres containing a prominent, leafy Park, Botanic Garden and a Zoo, Prospect Park is the Central Park of Brooklyn. The park was built by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, the same architects of Central Park. The park grew around a big lake, long meadow and heavily wooded ravine, its 3 distinctive regions. It has a grand entrance known as Grand Army Plaza to its north at Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway. The Brooklyn Public Library sits adjacent to the Plaza and a short distance down the Eastern Parkway is the Brooklyn Museum.