Prospect Park

Year

1867

Landscape architect

Frederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted

Type

landscape

Olmsted considered this 526-acre Brooklyn park, not Central Park, his masterwork, its Long Meadow, a continuous 90-acre open lawn, achieves a sense of pastoral infinity impossible in Manhattan's narrower rectangle. The Ravine, an engineered …

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