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Prospect Park fast facts

August 11, 2006

Prospect Park encompasses 585 acres in the heart of South Brooklyn

Within the park there are eleven bridges ... two waterfalls...3.45 miles of roads ... 250 acres of woodlands, the last forest in Brooklyn...

For the sportsman (or woman or child), there are 11 baseball fields, seven playgrounds, 1 soccer field, and a 60-acre lake...

The park is home to 50 species of butterflies and 18 species of fish... More than 200 species of birds fly through the park...

30,000 trees put down roots here; the oldest of them is 300 years old...

At latest count, 5,279 volunteers spent 23,110 hours per year keeping the park in tip-top shape...