Prospect Park
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Prospect Park is an urban park in Brooklyn, New York City. The park is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. With an area of 526 acres Prospect Park is the second largest public park in Brooklyn.
Main attractions of the park include the 90-acre Long Meadow; Prospect Park Zoo; the Boathouse; Concert Grove, and Brooklyn's only lake, covering 60 acres. The park also has sports facilities, including 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 cemetery on Quaker Hill near the ball fields. In addition, Prospect Park is part of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway, a network of green spaces that stretch across western Long Island.
A 146-acre section of Prospect Park's interior is known as the Ravine. The region contains the headwaters of the park's water system, as well as Brooklyn's only remaining old-growth forest, the Midwood. Sightings of butterflies are common, and since the 1990s and 2000s, increasing numbers of bats have been seen in Prospect Park.
