Prospect Park

Nate Folkert: designed by architect stanford white, inspired by classical greek columns at delphi

Nate Folkert: a 1919 monument from the boy scouts to president theodore roosevelt

Nate Folkert: james stranahan was instrumental in the creation of prospect park. he is buried at nearby green-wood cemetery

Nate Folkert: beautiful lakeside meadow is uncrowded, shady, and cool on sunny summer days, perfect for frisbee, picnics, and kite flying

Nate Folkert: views are obscured by trees in the warmer months but once the trees are bare you can see to coney island

Nate Folkert: a monument to the regiment of 400 maryland soldiers who fought the british at lookout hill, allowing general washington and his forces to escape across gowanus creek

Nate Folkert: a quiet and shady playground with features intended for more imaginative than physical play

Nate Folkert: these awesome frog water features

Nate Folkert: was an important concert and show venue in the park before the construction of the bandshell

Nate Folkert: immortalized in marianne moore’s poem as brooklyn’s “crowning curio”, a community movement to preserve the tree in 1967 helped invigorate restoration of the whole park

Nate Folkert: the path between the concert grove and the boat house. watch for the camperdown elm on the north side of the tunnel

Nate Folkert: there’s a bench that runs the length in case you want to take a load off and hang out in a creepy tunnel for a while.

Nate Folkert: edvard grieg was the norwegian composer of “in the hall of the mountain king” for henrik ibsen’s play, peer gynt

Nate Folkert: originally intended as a lounge and locker room for lawn tennis players, it has been closed and run down for many years. restoration is underway, intended for spring 2021 reopening.

Nate Folkert: Named after a girl, Nellie, who used to sit and read under the trees here. After she died, her friends hung a sign with her name on a tree, and eventually it became official.

Nate Folkert: your kids can play with stuff they’d find in nature - twigs, sticks, pinecones, metal pots, plastic toys, etc.

Nate Folkert: besides the main path from lincoln playground to the children’s corner, there are lots of little trails winding through the woods

Nate Folkert: alexander skene co-founded the american gynecological society

Nate Folkert: good view of the skating rink and splash pad from the rooftop garden

Nate Folkert: named in honor of arleen o’brien, who was a natiralist at the audubon center in prospect park

Nate Folkert: fed from the city’s water supply, falkill falls is the beginning of the prospect park watercourse

Nate Folkert: a small protected valley on long meadow known to local birders as the “sparrow bowl”.

Nate Folkert: named with the dutch word for “within” to signify this pond’s location in the center of prospect park