Brooklyn Sights: Parks and gardens

Prospect Park is home to, of course, Prospect Park, designed by Olmsted and Vaux, who also designed Manhattan's Central Park but preferred their Brooklyn creation. Adjacent to the park is the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a 52-acre garden that is home to more than 10,000 taxa of plants. Read More »

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Parks in Kings County, New York

Brooklyn Heights Historic District
Cobble Hill Historic District, 1 km (1 mile)
Boerum Hill Historic District, 1 km (1 mile)
Boerum Park, 1 km (1 mile)
Sixteen Sycamores Playground, 1 km (1 mile)
Fulton Ferry Historic District, 1 km (1 mile)
Fort Greene Park, 1 km (1 mile)
Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District, 1 km (1 mile)
Vinegar Hill Historic District, 1 km (1 mile)
Carroll Gardens Historic District, 1 km (1 mile)
Thomas Greene Playground, 1 km (1 mile)
Fort Greene Historic District, 1 km (1 mile)
The Amazing Garden, 2 km (1 mile)
Mother Cabrini Park, 2 km (1 mile)
Oracle Playground, 2 km (1 mile)
Albert Lysander Parham Playground, 2 km (1 mile)
The Backyard, 2 km (1 mile)
Dimattina Playground, 2 km (1 mile)
Dean Playground, 2 km (1 mile)
Clinton Hill Historic District, 2 km (1 mile)
Washington Park (historical), 2 km (1 mile)
Park Slope Playground, 2 km (1 mile)
Pratt Playground, 2 km (1 mile)
Ennis Park, 2 km (2 miles)
DeKalb Playground, 3 km (2 miles)
Lowry Triangle, 3 km (2 miles)
Cohn Triangle, 3 km (2 miles)
Grand Army Plaza, 3 km (2 miles)
Star Spangled Banner Playground, 3 km (2 miles)
Park Slope Historic District, 3 km (2 miles)
Roebling Playground, 3 km (2 miles)
Middleton Playground, 3 km (2 miles)
Rodney Park South, 3 km (2 miles)
Hancock Playground, 3 km (2 miles)
Marcy Green Center, 3 km (2 miles)
Rodney Park North, 3 km (2 miles)
Union Grounds (historical), 3 km (2 miles)
Institute Park (historical), 3 km (2 miles)
Rodney Playground South, 3 km (2 miles)
Banneker Playground, 4 km (2 miles)
Detective Joseph Mayrose Park, 4 km (2 miles)
Stockton Playground, 4 km (2 miles)
Harmony Triangle, 4 km (2 miles)
Rodney Playground North, 4 km (2 miles)
Willoughby Playground, 4 km (2 miles)
Capitoline Grounds (historical), 4 km (2 miles)
Lindsay Triangle, 4 km (2 miles)
Hattie Carthan Playground, 4 km (2 miles)
Bartlett Playground, 4 km (2 miles)
Prospect Park (Brooklyn), 4 km (2 miles)
Martinez Playground, 4 km (3 miles)
John D'Emic Senior Memorial Park, 4 km (3 miles)
Saint Andrews Playground, 4 km (3 miles)
Israel Putnam Playground, 4 km (3 miles)
Kosciuszko Street Garden, 4 km (3 miles)
Garden Playground, 4 km (3 miles)
Doger Playground, 4 km (3 miles)
Seeley Park, 5 km (3 miles)
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, 5 km (3 miles)
Eleanor Roosevelt Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Stuyvesant Park, 5 km (3 miles)
Beattie Triangle, 5 km (3 miles)
Ramirez Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Saint Nicholas-Powers Street Garden, 5 km (3 miles)
Greenwood Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Harmony Park, 5 km (3 miles)
Fulton Park, 5 km (3 miles)
Lafayette Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Parkside Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Saint Johns Park, 5 km (3 miles)
Public School 1 Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Albermarle Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Fermi Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Captain Oakley Junior Square, 5 km (3 miles)
Hamilton-Metz Field, 5 km (3 miles)
Jackie Robinson Park, 5 km (3 miles)
Police Officer Reinaldo Salgado Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Rolf Henry Playground, 5 km (3 miles)
Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces Historic District, 6 km (3 miles)
Prospect Park South Historic District, 6 km (3 miles)
Nicholas A Brizzi Playground, 6 km (3 miles)
Boulevard Grove (historical), 6 km (4 miles)
Pigeon Plaza, 6 km (4 miles)
Brevoort Playground, 6 km (4 miles)
Heckscher Playground, 6 km (4 miles)
Rainbow Playground, 6 km (4 miles)
Heisser Triangle, 6 km (4 miles)
Pacific Playground, 6 km (4 miles)
Fish Playground, 7 km (4 miles)
Payne Park, 7 km (4 miles)
Ditmus Park Historic District, 7 km (4 miles)
Tiger Playground, 7 km (4 miles)
DiGilio Playground, 7 km (4 miles)
Irving Square, 7 km (4 miles)
Leif Ericson Park And Square, 7 km (4 miles)
Ocean Hill Playground, 7 km (4 miles)
Tilden Playground, 7 km (4 miles)
Hull Street Garden, 7 km (4 miles)
Chester Playground, 7 km (4 miles)
Stephen A Rudd Playground, 7 km (4 miles)
Hot Spot Tot Lot, 7 km (5 miles)
Public School 125 Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Houston Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Brownsville I Ura Park, 8 km (5 miles)
McKinley Park, 8 km (5 miles)
Gravesend Park, 8 km (5 miles)
Gethsemane Garden, 8 km (5 miles)
Harry Maze Memorial Park, 8 km (5 miles)
Nehemiah Park, 8 km (5 miles)
Railroad Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Floyd Patterson Field, 8 km (5 miles)
George Walker Junior Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Lion's Pride Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Amersfort Park, 8 km (5 miles)
McDonald Triangle, 8 km (5 miles)
Friends Field, 8 km (5 miles)
Grace Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
William Sunners Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Sid Luckman Field, 8 km (5 miles)
Dyker Heights Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Brownsville Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Rachel Haber Cohen Playground, 9 km (5 miles)
Paul W Kolbert Park, 9 km (5 miles)
Glenwood Playground, 9 km (5 miles)
Andries Playground, 9 km (5 miles)
Duke Park, 9 km (5 miles)
Jefferson Field, 9 km (5 miles)
Remsen Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Dahill Triangle, 9 km (6 miles)
Fraser Square, 9 km (6 miles)
Sperandeo Brothers Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Samuel Goldberg Triangle, 9 km (6 miles)
Commander Eugene S Sarsfield Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Onehundred Percent Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Schenk Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Dyker Beach Park, 9 km (6 miles)
Garibaldi Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Colonel David Marcus Memorial Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Private First Class Thomas Norton Memorial Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Shore Road Park, 9 km (6 miles)
John J Carty Park, 10 km (6 miles)
Jacob Joffe Park, 10 km (6 miles)
Ethan Allen Playground, 10 km (6 miles)
Corporal Wiltshire Triangle, 10 km (6 miles)

Parks in New York County, New York

South Street Seaport, 2 km (1 mile)
New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 2 km (1 mile)
Nolan Park, 2 km (1 mile)
Hanover Square, 2 km (1 mile)
Fraunces Tavern Block Historic District, 2 km (1 mile)
Stone Street Historic District, 2 km (1 mile)
John J DeLury Senior Plaza, 2 km (1 mile)
Louise Nevelson Plaza, 2 km (1 mile)
Federal Hall National Memorial, 2 km (1 mile)
East Coast Memorial, 2 km (1 mile)
Bowling Green, 2 km (1 mile)
Battery Park, 2 km (2 miles)
South Cove Park, 3 km (2 miles)
Ellis Island National Monument (historical), 4 km (3 miles)
Statue of Liberty National Monument, 5 km (3 miles)

Parks in Queens County, New York

Starr Playground, 6 km (4 miles)
Rosemary's Playground, 7 km (5 miles)
Evergreen Park, 8 km (5 miles)
Benninger Playground, 8 km (5 miles)
Joseph F Mafera Park, 8 km (5 miles)
Highland Park, 9 km (5 miles)
Drumn Circle, 9 km (5 miles)
Glendale Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Glendale Veterans Triangle, 9 km (6 miles)

Parks in Richmond County, New York

Pinocchio Playground, 9 km (6 miles)
Major Barrett Triangle, 9 km (6 miles)
Fort Hill Park, 10 km (6 miles)

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