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Published on 7/25/08
Published on 7/24/08
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1 Prospect Park Ravine, Brooklyn
2 Sheep Meadow, Central Park
3 The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
4 Wave Hill Pergola, Bronx
5 White Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden
Sights 6–10
This evocatively rugged area at the heart of Prospect Park, dense with trees and bodies of water, is often described as a “natural” wonder that brings Adirondack flavor to Brooklyn—except that nature should share credit with park designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the same guys behind Central Park. The ravine is proof that man tinkering with earth can bring out the best in both.
View all of our green space picks on a Google map.
John B. Moore
Mon, Oct 15, 07, at 7:58pm
Okay you've got Central Park 843 acres of one of the most beautifully landscaped parks in the world, an urban oasis that includes Bow Bridge, Bethesda Fountain, Belvedere Castle, Conservatory Garden, The Lake and Gapstow Bridge. Out of all of these, and countless other iconic images of the park, you chose the Sheep Meadow a vast lawn full of greased up New Yorkers desperate for their share of carcinoma causing sunshine; a space that was arguably put to better use as a buffet for the inbred mutant sheep that once inhabited the Sheepfold the current Tavern on the Green.
You really believe that the Sheep Meadow is the most beautiful spot in Central Park? Or did you just suck back a Mohito at the aforementioned former livestock hostelry snap a picture at the nearest open space and call it a day?
lisa
Thu, Oct 11, 07, at 4:19pm
Carl Schurz?
