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Place Name
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Prospect Park
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Place Status (Type)
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park
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Location
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New York, United States, North America
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Latitude
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40°40'N
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Longitude
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73°59'W
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Prospect Park
, municipal park, W central Brooklyn, N.Y. city, SE N.Y., bounded
on E by Washington and Ocean aves., S by Parkside Ave., W by Prospect
Park SW, N by Flatbush Ave.; 40°40'N 73°59'W. A
562-acre/227-ha public park set on land acquired by the City
of Brooklyn in 1855; one of the nation's finest landscaped parks.
Designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux, who also designed
Central, Morningside, and Riverside parks in N.Y. city, the State
Reservation Park in Niagara Falls, and South Park in Chicago. Prospect
Park has been called by some admirers their best creation. The
designers had envisioned connecting Prospect and Central parks with a
series of wide, tree-lined boulevards, but the plans never came to
fruition. The 2d-largest of Brooklyn's many parks. Contains Lookout
Hill, held by Continental Army against the British in 1776 Battle of
L.I.; Soldier and Sailor's Memorial Arch; the Du.-style
Lefferts Homestead (built 1783); Prospect Park Wildlife
Center; Litchfield Villa (c.1860); and an old Quaker cemetery. Grand
Army Plaza, Brooklyn Botanical Garden to N.
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