#84 Prospect Park: Brooklyn's Natural Work of Art

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, Mead and White and Robert Moses get to it? ALSO: what classic Hollywood movie actor is buried here? boweryboyshistory.com ORIGINALLY RELEASED JUNE 5, 2009 THIS IS A SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED PODCAST! Chapter headings with images have been embedded in this show, so if your listening device is compatible with AAC/M4A files, just hit play and a variety of pictures should pop up. The audio is superior than the original as well. (This will work as a normal audio file even if the images don't appear.)

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#84 Prospect Park: Brooklyn's Natural Work of Art is an episode from Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years by Gregory Young.

This episode is 34:35 long.

This episode was published on Aug 11, 2016.

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