They cleared the pool when it started raining, but when it stopped after a few minutes, no one was eager to jump back in. It’s 80 and breezy and we’re not complaining a bit. Well, it is a little humid….
Posts Tagged ‘brooklyn parks and recreation’
Sunset Park pool on a rainy afternoon
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn parks and recreation, brooklyn summer, photography, public pools nyc, sunset park, sunset park pool on August 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
On thin ice
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn parks and recreation, budget crisis nyc, ice ladder, photography, prospect park, swan lake prospect park on April 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The ice ladders are still out by the lake in Prospect Park. If they are not collected, they’ll end up in the lake sooner or later and new ones will have to be purchased.
Litchfield Villa in the rain
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn parks and recreation, edwin litchfield, litchfield villa, ny harbor view, photography, ppw, prospect park, prospect park west on January 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Built in 1857, Litchfield Villa was nearly torn down eleven years later during the construction of Prospect Park. Brooklyn was mostly farmland then, and the weathly Edwin Litchfield owned the land all the way down to the Gowanus. He built his mansion on a hill so that he could see the harbor. Litchfield wasn’t happy, being forced to give up his house, but he didn’t have a choice.
Currently the headquarters of Brooklyn’s Parks and Recreation and Prospect Park Alliance, Litchfield Villa, with its porch columns decorated with corn cobs and wheat stalks, is considered a stellar example of 19th century romantic Italian architecture.
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