NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital provides a geological transplant to Prospect Park
During excavation near Sixth Street and Eighth Avenue in Park Slope — the site for NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital’s new Center for Community Health (CCH) — about 30 large boulders were removed from the ground and donated to the Prospect Park Alliance, according to a release from the hospital.
The park plans to use these transplanted pieces of quartz granite for its Parks without Borders initiative.
According to Christian Zimmerman, vice president of capital and landscape management for the Prospect Park Alliance, the Parks without Borders plan includes adding a new entrance to Prospect Park on Flatbush Avenue, where the boulders will likely be placed long term.