Prospect Park Zoo
The Prospect Park Zoo is a 12-acre zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. As of 2016, the zoo houses 864 animals representing about 176 species, and as of 2007, it averaged 300,000 visitors annually.Photo: Garry R. Osgood, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
Monday—Friday: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
Saturday—Sunday: 10:00 AM—5:30 PM - Type: Zoo
- Description: zoo in Brooklyn, New York
- Address: 450 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, 11225
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 2,100 feet north of Prospect Park Zoo.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies 52 acres in central Brooklyn, close to Mount Prospect Park, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum.
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 Brooklyn, New York City, within an area 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.
Flatbush
Quarter
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, East Flatbush to the east, Midwood to the south, and Kensington and Parkville to the west.
Prospect Park Zoo
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.66529° or 40° 39′ 55″ northLongitude
-73.96489° or 73° 57′ 54″ westOperator
Wildlife Conservation SocietyOpen location code
87G8M28P+42OpenStreetMap ID
way 60861746OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=zooWikidata ID
Q1058899
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Prospect Park Zoo” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “展望公園動物園”
- Dutch: “Prospect Park Wildlife Conservation Center”
- Dutch: “Prospect Park Zoo”
- French: “zoo de Prospect Park”
- French: “Zoo de Prospect Park”
- Hebrew: “גן החיות פארק פרוספקט”
- Italian: “zoo di Prospect Park”
- Japanese: “プロスペクトパーク動物園”
- Korean: “프로스펙트 파크 동물원”
- Russian: “Зоопарк Проспект парка”
- Russian: “Зоопарк Проспект-парка”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Black-tailed Prairie Dog and Animal Lifestyles.
Nearby Places
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