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Prospect Park Zoo

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Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Prospect Park Zoo
Phone:
+1 718-399-7339

Hours:
Sunday10am - 4:30pm
Monday10am - 4:30pm
Tuesday10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday10am - 4:30pm
Thursday10am - 4:30pm
Friday10am - 4:30pm
Saturday10am - 4:30pm


Prospect Park is a 526-acre public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Prospect Park is run and operated by the Prospect Park Alliance and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush and Windsor Terrace, and abuts Eastern Parkway, Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is part of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, and is the second largest public park in Brooklyn, behind Marine Park. Opened in 1867, Prospect Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after their completion of Manhattan's Central Park. The park subsequently underwent numerous modifications and expansions to its faciliteis. Prospect Park was made a New York City Historic Landmark on November 25, 1975, and was listed on the a National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980. Main attractions of the park include the 90-acre Long Meadow; the Picnic House; Litchfield Villa, the pre-existing home of Edwin Clark Litchfield, an early developer of the neighborhood and a former owner of a southern section of the Park; Prospect Park Zoo; a large nature conservancy managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society; the Boathouse, housing a visitors center and the first urban Audubon Center; Brooklyn's only lake, covering 60 acres ; and the Prospect Park Bandshell that hosts free outdoor concerts in the summertime. The park also has sports facilities, including seven baseball fields in the Long Meadow, the Prospect Park Tennis Center, basketball courts, baseball fields, soccer fields, and the New York Pétanque Club in the Parade Ground. There is also a private Society of Friends cemetery on Quaker Hill near the ball fields.
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