Prospect Park
Prospect Park is an 80-acre city park in Troy, New York. The park is situated between Congress and Hill Street on top of Mount Ida. Prospect Park was originally designed in 1903 by local landscape engineer Garnet Douglass Baltimore, the first African-American graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Photo: Wmccah, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center and Hart-Cluett Mansion.
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
Arts center
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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center is a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which opened on October 3, 2008.
Hart-Cluett Mansion
Museum
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The Hart-Cluett Mansion is located at 57 Second Street in Troy, New York, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and is a contributing property to the Central Troy Historic District created in 1986.
Congregation Berith Sholom
Synagogue
Congregation Berith Sholom is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 167 Third Street, in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, in the United States. The synagogue is the oldest continuously used synagogue in the state of New York, the second oldest house of worship in the state outside of the city of New York, and one of the oldest synagogue buildings in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Troy and Watervliet.
Troy
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Troy is a city in Rensselaer County, New York located northeast of Albany. Its nicknames include "The Collar City" and "Home of Uncle Sam." As a result of its unique history, Troy still has what is widely considered to be the best-preserved big-city 19th-century downtown in the country.
Watervliet
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Watervliet is a city in northeastern Albany County, New York, United States. The population was 10,375 as of the 2020 census. Watervliet is north of Albany, the capital of the state, and is bordered on the north, west, and south by the town of Colonie.
Green Island
Village
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Green Island is a coterminous town-village in Albany County, New York, United States, some 8 miles north of Albany. Green Island is one of only five such town-village amalgamations in New York.
Prospect Park
- Type: Park
- Description: public park in Troy, New York
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Rensselaer, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.72388° or 42° 43′ 26″ northLongitude
-73.68491° or 73° 41′ 6″ westElevation
253 feet (77 metres)Open location code
87J8P8F8+H2OpenStreetMap ID
way 90890680OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Prospect Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Prospect Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, New York, Rensselaer County)”
- Cebuano: “Prospect Park”
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