Prospect Park was designed for people — and horses. The park’s grounds, which included carriage drives and bridle paths, were the site of horse shows and parades. In the early 1900s, hundreds of horses were stabled there. Today, the park’s equestrian facilities are one step closer to their former grandeur, thanks to Brooklyn industrialist and […]
The Prospect Park Zoo has a new exhibit of Pallas’s cats and plans to start a breeding program for this at-risk species of felines. The Pallas’s cat, which is native to Central Asia, has been classified as “near threatened” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature since 2002. These cats are often hunted for […]
How did Prospect Park’s Willink Hill get its name? — Henk Willink, Doetinchem, The Netherlands Long before the completion of Prospect Park in 1875, the area was sparsely populated by some of the original inhabitants: The Dutch. Even though the English captured and occupied New Amsterdam in 1664, the Dutch — including Gov. Pieter Stuyvesant […]