Monuments to Motherhood
Monuments to Motherhood is a work of art in Brooklyn, New York. Monuments to Motherhood is situated nearby to the marketplace Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, as well as near Brooklyn Public Library.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Prospect Park and Brooklyn Museum.
Prospect Park
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
Brooklyn Museum
Museum
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Brooklyn Museum is situated 1,700 feet east of Monuments to Motherhood.
Grand Army Plaza
Square
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Grand Army Plaza is situated 910 feet north of Monuments to Motherhood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prospect Heights and Park Slope.
Prospect Heights
Neighborhood
Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the northwest of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway – beginning at Grand Army Plaza – to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east.
Park Slope
Neighborhood
Photo: GK tramrunner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Park Slope is a neighborhood in South Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope 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.
Gowanus
Neighborhood
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gowanus is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 6.
Monuments to Motherhood
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: sculpture
- Category: tourism
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.67135° or 40° 40′ 17″ northLongitude
-73.96965° or 73° 58′ 11″ westInception
May 2025Operator
NYC ParksOpen location code
87G8M2CJ+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 12862006988OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=sculpture
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