Prospect Park is located in central Brooklyn, at the heart of an exciting neighborhood that boasts some of New York City’s finest cultural institutions.




The nearby 52-acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a world-renowned horticultural treasure. Highlights include the serene Japanese Esplanade’s dazzling display of cherry blossoms, the Lily Pool Terrace, featuring nearly one hundred varieties of water lilies, the Discover Garden for families, the Steinhardt Conservatory’s lush exotic plants, and the famous C.V. Star Bonsai Museum. No matter what the season, something is always in bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Steps away from the Park is the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. Housed in a 1941 Art Moderne building, the Library features a broad range of multimedia materials for adults and children. Among its outstanding departments are the Multilingual Center, the Youth Wing, and the Brooklyn Collection, an invaluable resource that contains over 35,000 photographs from the late nineteenth century to the present, the "morgue" of the old Brooklyn Eagle newspaper, as well as maps, drawings, and other ephemera.

Mount Prospect Park provides a tree-shaded playground and grassy spaces on Eastern Parkway between the Library and the main entrance to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

The Brooklyn Museum is the second largest art museum in the United States. Its vast holdings of more than one million objects range from the ancient to the contemporary and encompass virtually all the world’s principal cultures. The Museum’s collections include ancient Egyptian art; classical and ancient Middle Eastern material; European painting and sculpture; one of the finest assemblages of American paintings in the United States; drawings, prints, and photographs; the decorative arts, featuring twenty-eight period rooms; the arts of China, Korea, Japan, and South and Southeast Asia; Islamic art; native American art; and one of the largest and finest collections of African art in this country. The collections are displayed on five floors of gallery space in a 560,000-square-foot landmark Beaux-Arts building designed by McKim, Mead & White.

Brower Park, a few blocks east of the Brooklyn Museum, is home to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the world’s first museum especially for children. The Brooklyn Children’s Museum invites families to explore hands-on exhibits about world cultures and natural science. It also presents multicultural concerts, theater performances, and special programs for children under five. The museum is located in a unique 35,000-square-foot underground structure that houses a permanent collection of 27,000 cultural objects and natural history specimens.

Together with Prospect Park and the Prospect Park Zoo, these organizations form a cultural partnership called the Heart of Brooklyn. The neighboring communities of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Windsor Terrace, and East Flatbush offer a wide range of restaurants and retail shops.