Prospect Park gets $3.7 million in funding for improvements
The Prospect Park Alliance announced on Friday a total of $3.5 million in funding from Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and the City Council to renovate the Oriental Pavilion and Flatbush Avenue Perimeter on the Park’s east side.
Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Councilmember Brad Lander and the entire Brooklyn Delegation allocated $2 million in funding in the City Council’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget to restore the Oriental Pavilion, a historic park structure. Councilmember Laurie Cumbo and Adams also secured $1.5 million in funding for key improvements to the Flatbush Avenue park perimeter.
Additionally, Councilmember Brad Lander, through the Participatory Budgeting process, secured $200,000 to renovate a path on the park’s east side that leads from the Children’s Corner (Prospect Park Zoo, Lefferts Historic House and Prospect Park Carousel) to the Zucker Natural Exploration Area, a children’s play space in the northeast corner of the park.