Prospect Park

Prospect Park is a 585 acres (2.37 km2) (237 ha)  public park in New York district of Brooklyn located between Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is managed and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and is part of the greenway in Brooklyn and Queens.

The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, after the completion of Central Park. Attractions include the Long Meadow, a field of 90 acres (36 ha), picnic House, which houses offices and a room that can accommodate parties up to 175 people, Litchfield Villa, the home of pre-existing Edwin Clark Litchfield , an early developer and former owner of the neighborhood in the southern part of the park Prospect Park Zoo, a center of large nature protection managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the pier house the first town visitors and Audubon Center,  Brooklyn's only lake, covering 60 acres (24 ha), Prospect Park Bandshell in which free hosts outdoor concerts in summer. The park also boasts sports facilities, including seven baseball fields in Long Meadow, Prospect and Central Park tennis courts, basketball courts, baseball fields, soccer fields, and the Bowls Club of New York in the parade . There is also a private cemetery friends in Quaker Hill, near the ball fields, where the actor Montgomery Clift is buried .