From Grand Army Plaza to Prospect Park
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 7/04/2009 11:20:00 PM.
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York is an oval plaza that forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867 and was meant as a gateway, to separate the noisy city from the calm nature of the Park. The Plaza was one of the first features of Prospect Park to be built and marks the beginning of the Eastern Parkway (1866), the world’s first parkway, also designed by Vaux and Olmsted.
Originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, but renamed in 1926, it is best known for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Brooklyn’s version of the Arc de Triomphe.
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I had no earthly idea that NYC had so much beautiful architecture.