Statues of Prospect Park
In November 2018, Prospect Park Alliance announced that a monument to Brooklynite Shirley Chisholm will be erected at Prospect Park’s Parkside entrance.
Chisholm was the political trailblazer who was both the first black U.S. Congresswoman and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. When it arrives, Chisholm’s monument will join the ranks of Prospect Park’s statuary, with the distinction of being the park’s first to depict a real (not fictional) woman, and the city’s sixth overall. From composers to former U.S. presidents, meet some of the statues already gracing these 585 acres.