#84 Prospect Park

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2009

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Prospect Park, Brooklyn's biggest public space and home to the borough's only natural forest, was a sequel for Olmsted and Vaux after their revolutionary creation Central Park. But can these two landscape architects still work together or will their egos get in the way? And what happens to their dream when McKim, Meade and White and Robert Moses get to it? ALSO: what glamorous 1960s movie actor is buried here? www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys Episode 85, Prospect Park.
0:04.2	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
0:05.7	Hey.
0:06.7	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com.
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0:20.5	Hello there, welcome to the Bowry Boys.
0:22.5	This is Greg Young.
0:23.8	And I'm Tom Myers.
0:24.8	Thanks for joining us for another adventure through the back alleys of New York City, or
0:29.0	this time through a parkland.
0:31.1	And not just any parkland, we're going to Prospect Park in the heart of Brooklyn.
0:36.0	You can consider this episode to be a sequel to our two-park Central Park podcast, because
0:41.1	in a way, it's a sequel to the creators of Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted and
0:45.5	Calvert Vox.
0:46.9	So we'll be sort of going to the journey of how this park landed smack dab in the middle
0:51.8	of Brooklyn.
0:52.8	It was built as a response to, you know, an urbanizing America.
0:57.1	Now these two now superstar architects were brought back into the job.
1:02.2	And what about Prospect Park is different from Central Park.
1:06.1	And why today it's one of New York's most incredible parks, it's actually bigger than
1:09.6	Central Park.
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