Prospect Park

Yeah.

And you were always taking the kids to Prospect Park.

Yeah.

And it's like, you can't be walking around in five-inch heels and-

Oh, yeah

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Prospect Park, which is like heaven.

Yeah, that was a great summer.

If one of us had to work late, the other cheered them on and made sure there was food or wine waiting when they came home.

We married in a cluttered private ceremony in Prospect Park.

No Instagram hashtags, just loose curls and linen, our vows scribbled on sketchbook paper.

For years, chaos suited us.

And the other thing I would say is there's kind of a misconception that certain parks are only for rich people, and they have the conservancies, and no poor people go there, but that's not really true.

Uh, every park, Prospect Park, Central Park, Riverside Park, serves, uh, all people across the economic spectrum.

Obviously, Fort Tryon Park does, too.

We have, you know, a, a very mixed community that comes there.

And it was a beautiful day in Brooklyn for a very important cause.

The 18th annual TEAL 5K run was held today in Prospect Park.

TEAL stands for Tell Every Amazing Lady About Ovarian Cancer.

And our amazing reporter Stacey Sager, herself a survivor, also participated in today's run.

but the grizzly only became more infuriated and began a brisk war-dance around the tree howling all the while in a terrible manner at length the branch upon which the hunter was sitting began to give way and the unfortunate man felt himself doomed to certain death closing his eyes he resigned himself to the worst when instead of falling as he expected into the open jaws of the huge beast he together with the heavy branch upon which he had been sitting landed with a tremendous thump upon the grizzly's head the animal was so astonished and frightened at this sudden and unexpected assault that it took to its heels and soon disappeared in the forest Such miraculous escapes, however, are not frequent, and the number of Indians and hunters killed by grizzlies is very large.

young grizzlies have often been captured and when very small are as playful and affectionate as dogs but they are not to be trusted for as they grow older their savage nature develops and they are liable to become dangerous property unless they can be surprised away from the mother their capture is attended by the utmost peril nothing can exceed the fury of the mother bear if her little ones are molested rising on her hind legs for a moment to survey the object of her hatred she will utter a hoarse huff huff huff and charge madly and wary and courageous must be the hunter who can overcome this savage monster hunting the grizzly is usually accomplished by parties of men well mounted and with bands of trained dogs but the huge beast will make a desperate fight for its life and often severely wounds numbers of its assailants before being forced itself to succumb miniature yachts On the preceding page is an illustration of a miniature yacht regatta on the lake in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

in that beautiful park there are few sights to be seen as beautiful as this the dainty yachts perfect in every detail look like graceful white-winged birds skimming over the water and the announcement of a regatta on the lake often attracts more spectators than similar announcements of grown-up regattas down the bay many of these spectators are very critical and attend these regattas in order to study fine points of sailing and to learn what models will show the greatest speed the little yachts are so carefully planned and built that they often serve as models for those of many tons some of the finest yachts of the new york brooklyn atlantic and siwanaka yacht clubs are built from models furnished by winners of races and regattas on the lakes of central and prospect parks two regularly organized and officered clubs the new york and brooklyn miniature yacht clubs are the rivals of these lakes and many exciting match races are sailed between the flyers of the two clubs these races and all the regattas are governed by the regular rules of yachting time allowances being made for differences of measurement and the amount of canvas allowed each boat as well as the course to be sailed being accurately defined of the miniature yachts schooners of the first class are generally about sixty inches long are heavily sparred that is they have very tall masts long booms and bowsprit and are ballasted with very deep and heavy lead keels they are either built or cut that is ribbed and planked or worked out from a single block of wood they carry rudders merely to make them look shipshape and are steered entirely by their sails these are so arranged as to balance fore and aft and the jib and main sheets are made of elastic rubber so nicely adjusted that if the boat is inclined to sail too close to the wind the main sheet stretches the mainsail is eased off and she resumes her proper course with the wind free if she is inclined to fall off too much and run before the wind the jib sheet stretches the wind spills out of the jib and the pressure upon her after sails quickly brings her up on the wind again the fleet at prospect park this season numbers some fifty sail from sixty inch schooners down to ten inch cat boats and contains schooners slopes cat boats and one square rigged steamer

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I'm Randy Cohen talking to Ben Furness about his place.

My place is the Prospect Park loop, the ring road itself,

which was once filled with cars but is now absent of cars thanks to the advocacy of transportation alternatives, and the perimeter bike lane that runs along Prospect Park West where Sammy Cohen Eckstein was killed in 2013 by a driver when he ran out to chase a ball and whose mother's grief Amy Cohen sort of transformed really has transformed the city, but she's went on to found families for safe streets, which was a project of transportation alternatives to bring people who'd lost loved ones in traffic crashes, um, together to advocate for safer and better streets for walking and biking in New York.

Um, and it's also a place where I taught my six year old daughter Miriam how to ride a bike.

It's a place that, yes, it brings people together.

Yeah,

same thing.

You know, which I think some people say that, well, Prospect Park didn't open until 1867 and, you know, Central Park signed in 1850.

This is because of signal problems right now at Junction Boulevard, so expect delays on your 7 trains in both directions.

Your northbound B and Q trains are running with delays, also because of signal problems at Prospect Park.

It seems like signal problems are the theme of the day right now.

Other than that, all your other subways are running on or close to schedule.

This is because of signal problems there at Junction Boulevard.

Expect delays on your 7 trains in both directions.

The only good news, your B and Q trains have resumed after earlier signal problems at Prospect Park.

So it's just the day of signal problems on the subways so far into the p.m. rush hour.