sv 2488, View In Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY 1

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sv 2488, View In Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY 1 Prospect Park is a 585 [1] acre (2.1 km²) public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn located between Park Slope , Kensington , Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue , Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and seven blocks north east of Green-Wood Cemetery . It is run and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation .The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after they completed Manhattan's Central Park . Attractions include the Long Meadow, a ninety acre (36 ha) meadow thought to be the largest meadow in any U.S. park; the Picnic House which houses offices and a hall that can accommodate parties with up to 175 guests; Litchfield Villa, the historic home of the previous owners of the southern part of Park; Prospect Park Zoo ; a large nature conservancy; the only urban Audubon Center & Visitor Center at the Boathouse; Brooklyn's only lake, covering 60 acres (24 ha); the Prospect Park Bandshell that hosts free outdoor concerts in summertime; and various sports and fitness activities including seven baseball fields. T is also a private Quaker cemetery on the grounds of the Park in an area known as Quaker Hill. (Actor Montgomery Clift is interred t)Originally the terminal moraine and outwash plain of the receding glaciers of the ice age , the area around the Park was the site of the Battle of Long Island during the U.S. Revolutionary War and became known as Battle Pass w the highest point known as Prospect Hill jutted up approximately 200 feet (60 m) from sea level. In the nineteenth century the Park was mostly farm land; the cost of acquiring the Park land by the City of Brooklyn was upwards of $4 million. The actual cost of construction of the Park amounted to more than $5 million. Originally the Park was to straddle Flatbush Avenue and go past the later built Eastern Parkway . Planning of the Park was originally begun before the American Civil War in 1860 but stopped during the war. After the war in 1865 Olmsted and Vaux were hired and Vaux convinced the city that more lands to the east and nearer to Green-Wood Cemetery should be purchased including the area of the park known as Nethermead and the farm land w Prospect Lake was built. As a work of engineering and landscaping Prospect Park was so revolutionary in its time that some considered the Park a work of art in itself; others were critical of the ideas of Olmsted and Vaux as they were seen as breaking with European traditions. Olmsted and Vaux literally engineered the Park to recreate wild nature as they had experienced in photographically documented trips across the United States. Breaking ground in June, 1866 ,[3] they created the large Long Meadow out of land that was filed with lowland peat bogs, they moved and planted trees, hauled topsoil and created a vast mowed turf with specifically placed trees (which have been recently been replanted to bring back the original design). Large swathes of trees were planted around the perimeter of the Park to create a buffer zone between the surrounding urban landscape so that the Park could be a true rural oasis away from the hustle and bustle of the city of Brooklyn. When still under construction, Olmsted and Vaux opened the park to the public on October 19 , 1867 . [1] Work continued for another six years until it was substantially complete in 1873 , though certain facets of the original design were never undertaken. With the financial panic of 1873 , Olmsted and Vaux were obliged to cease significant operations in the park and dissolved their partnership. [4] In designing the watercourse Olmstead and Vaux also took advantage of the pre-existing glacier formed kettle ponds and lowland outwash plains. A winding naturalistic stream channel with several ponds feeds a sixty acre (24 ha) lake. They crafted the watercourse to include a steep, forested Ravine -- perhaps their greatest masterpiece of landscape architecture -- all with significant river edge flora and fauna habitats. This w... read more

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