A home geography of New York city . 86 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YOEK CITY 208tli street to 155tli street. From 155th street a driveway continuesalong St. Nicholas place and St. Nicholas avenue to Central Park. Prospect Park is in the center of Brooklyn. Look at the plan ofProspect Park. Bound it. The park is situated on Mount Prospect,an elevated ridge. The site of the park has great natural contains fine wooded hills and a rolhng country. It is not aslarge as Central Park, but it has more natural beauty. Its wood-land, its botanical gardens, its lawns, its meadow-land, its lake, it
A home geography of New York city . 86 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YOEK CITY 208tli street to 155tli street. From 155th street a driveway continuesalong St. Nicholas place and St. Nicholas avenue to Central Park. Prospect Park is in the center of Brooklyn. Look at the plan ofProspect Park. Bound it. The park is situated on Mount Prospect,an elevated ridge. The site of the park has great natural contains fine wooded hills and a rolhng country. It is not aslarge as Central Park, but it has more natural beauty. Its wood-land, its botanical gardens, its lawns, its meadow-land, its lake, its. Riverside Drive Extension Viaduct tennis courts, its croquet grounds, and its great parade ground,used for baseball, cricket, and polo, are some of its soldiers and sailors memorial arch in the Plaza is a hand-some monument. There is a magnificent view of the city and harborfrom the park. Ocean Parkway is a boulevard west of Coney Island avenue, run-ning from the southern end of Prospect Park to Coney Island. Itis one of the finest drives in New York city. Pelham Bay Park, The Bronx. The borough of The Bronx, called• the l)orough of parks, contains the two largest parks in the city PAKKS 87
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