New York by Night

At 560.000 square feet, or 53,000 meters squared, the Brooklyn Museum is the third largest museum in NYC and holds an art collection of roughly 1.5 million works. Located near Prospect Heights, Crown Heirghts, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn and founded in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world, though it struggled to maintain its building and collection, only to be revitalized in the late 20th century by mysterious donors with lots of money and access to priceless artifacts.