Prospect Park is in Brooklyn, a huge public Park, dimensions slightly inferior to Central, but no less varied and beautiful. If the Central is created entirely by human hands, over the formation of Prospect Park have worked and nature.

The area lying to the South of Grand army Plaza is an extreme point of occurrence of Arctic ice during the last ice age about 17 thousand years ago. On the border of glacier-formed moraine that formed long island and the line of hills in the Northern part of the Park with a height of about 60 meters. The area was formerly covered with forests, European colonization had spared them only in the local peat bogs have been preserved chestnut, white poplar, oak.

During the war for independence in the territory Prospect Park took place the battle of long island colonists lost the battle. In 1859 it was decided to break up in Brooklyn, then an independent city, a public Park. Developed project by the same architects that built Central Park, Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, he completed was in 1873. At the turn of the twentieth century formed the entrances to the Park, it appeared to the monuments. Intensely beautified it when new York mayor LaGuardia (30-40 years), then hard times came. The revival of the Park began in the end of the century, now it is visited by over ten million people a year.

Amazing feature of Prospect Park – it under running water system, built on the basis of natural water sources and wetlands. The system even includes waterfalls and ends in a large lake in which they live 20 species of fish, the Park holds an annual competition anglers. Next to water system is the heart of Prospect Park, a large area of the "Ravine" where is convincingly recreated landscapes of the mountainous region of the Adirondacks.

Prospect Park is part of a larger Bicycle and pedestrian route Brooklyn-Queens Greenway length of 64 kilometers. Long meadow area of 36 hectares are seven baseball fields. Right in the Park are the Brooklyn Botanical garden, the mansion of the XIX century in the Italian style Villa Litchfield" (by architect Alexander Jackson Davis), the zoo, the boathouse beginning of XX century. In winter on the ice of the great lake offers public skating rink. At any time of the year are found in the Park riding enthusiasts here at Kensington stables.