Summer is synonymous with picnics in Prospect Park, and our visitors can be seen laying out blankets and busting out a healthy spread, much as they have done for the 150-year history of the Park. Prospect Park Alliance is paying tribute to the occasion with a history of picnicking in the Park—a time-honored Brooklyn tradition, and a luxury not afforded to 19th century visitors of Central Park.

Excerpted from Prospect Park: Olmsted & Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece, Princeton Architectural Press, 2013