Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. One of my big regrets about leaving Brooklyn is that I never really got to be an expert on Prospect Park. I just never went there enough to become one.

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The Hudson River Valley region is fortunate to have landmarks designed by notables such as Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Clarke Withers and Frederick Law Olmsted. Many world-renowned ...

While many people know that New York City’s Central Park was designed by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, they might not be aware that the duo also oversaw the design of a ...

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this story. Prospect Park was not even half completed when it opened to the public in 1867. It was a huge success, made even larger over the next six years, as work ...