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Prospect Park

Prospect Park is in . It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Museum
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The is an art museum in the borough of . At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects.

Garden
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is a botanical garden in the borough of in . The botanical garden occupies 52 acres in central Brooklyn, close to , Prospect Park, and the .

Zoo
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The is a 12-acre zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, , . As of 2016, the zoo houses 864 animals representing about 176 species, and as of 2007, it averaged 300,000 visitors annually.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flatbush and Park Slope.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the borough of . The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, to the east, to the south, and and Parkville to the west.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in South , , within the area once known as . is roughly bounded by Prospect Park and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.

Neighborhood
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is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the borough of . It is bounded by Prospect Park on the east and northeast, at Prospect Park West, , and at McDonald Avenue on the northwest, west, and southwest, and at Caton Avenue on the south.

Prospect Park

Latitude
40.66143° or 40° 39′ 41″ north
Longitude
-73.97035° or 73° 58′ 13″ west
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
Open location code
87G8M26H+HV
Geo­Names ID
7303376
Wiki­data ID
Q1049632
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Prospect Park” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بروسبكت بارك”
  • Basque: “Prospect Park (Brooklyn)”
  • Basque: “Prospect Park”
  • Catalan: “Prospect Park”
  • Cebuano: “Prospect Park (parke sa Tinipong Bansa, New York, Kings County, lat 40,66, long -73,97)”
  • Cebuano: “Prospect Park”
  • Chinese: “展望公园”
  • Chinese: “展望公園”
  • Czech: “Prospect Park”
  • Danish: “Prospect Park”
  • Dutch: “Prospect Park”
  • Esperanto: “Prospect Park”
  • Estonian: “Prospect Park”
  • Finnish: “Prospect Park”
  • French: “Prospect Park”
  • German: “Prospect Park”
  • Hebrew: “פארק פרוספקט”
  • Indonesian: “Prospect Park”
  • Irish: “Prospect Park”
  • Italian: “Prospect Park”
  • Japanese: “プロスペクト・パーク (ニューヨーク市ブルックリンの公園）”
  • Japanese: “プロスペクト・パーク (ブルックリン)”
  • Japanese: “プロスペクト・パーク”
  • Korean: “프로스펙트 공원”
  • Persian: “پارک پراسپکت”
  • Portuguese: “Prospect Park”
  • Russian: “Проспект Парк”
  • Russian: “Проспект-парк”
  • Slovak: “Prospect Park”
  • Spanish: “Prospect Park”
  • Swedish: “Prospect Park”
  • Turkish: “Prospect Park”
  • Yakut: “Проспект Парк (Бруклин)”
  • Yakut: “Проспект Парк”
  • Yiddish: “פראספעקט פארק”

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