Prospect Park, located in Brooklyn - a huge public park, the size of slightly inferior to the Central, but no less rich and beautiful. If the Central created entirely by human hands, the formation of Prospect Park and the nature of bother.

The area, which lies to the south of the Grand Army Plaza - an extreme point of the onset of the Arctic ice during the last ice age about 17,000 years ago. On the border of the glacier formed the moraine, formed the Long Island and a line of hills in the northern part of the park a height of about 60 meters. The area was once covered by forests, European colonization spared them only in the local peat bogs - preserved chestnut, white poplar, oak.

During the war for independence in the territory of Prospect Park took place the Battle of Long Island - the colonists lost the battle. In 1859 it was decided to break up in Brooklyn, then an independent town, a public park. Develop projects are the same architects that built Central Park - Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, he was fully completed in 1873. At the turn of the XX century took shape entrance to the park, there will be a monument. Intense equipped with modern conveniences it at the mayor of New York La Guardia (30-40 years), and then came a bad time. The revival of the park began in the end of the century, today it is visited by more than ten million people a year.

The amazing feature of Prospect Park - its running water system, built on natural water sources and wetlands. The system even includes waterfalls and ends with a large lake in which they live 20 fish species - the park hosts an annual competition anglers. Next to the water system is the heart of Prospect Park, a vast area "ravine", where convincingly recreated landscapes of the mountainous region of the Adirondacks.

Prospect Park is part of a bicycle-pedestrian route Brooklyn-Queens Greenway length of 64 kilometers. On the Long Meadow area of ​​36 hectares there are seven baseball fields. Right in the park are the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the mansion of the XIX century in the Italian style, "Litchfield Villa" (designed by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis), a zoo, boathouse early XX century. In winter, a large lake on the ice skating rink open to the public. At any time of the year can be found in the park lovers of the local riding stables Kensington.