*Landmarks and Popular Sites*

Landmarks and Popular Sites

Architecture

Synagogues and Worship

Synagogues are scattered throughout the Parkway, and are significant landmarks in architecture, representing both elements of neo-Renaissance and Beaux-Arts style [1]. The Union Temple House, located on 17 Eastern Parkway, is a perfect example. ^[1]

770 Eastern Parkway

770 Eastern Parkway is the world-renowned heart of the Chabad Lubavitcher movement. This is the house of the leader of the Lubavitch people in America.

the Soldier's and Sailors Memorial Arch

At the intersection of Prospect Park West, Flatbush Avenue, and Eastern Parkway in the center of Grand Army Plaza is the Soldiers' and Sailors Memorial Arch, which commemorates Civil War' soldiers .

Next to the Plaza is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. This Art Deco building resembles an open book, with the building’s two wings representing the pages looking onto Eastern Parkway and Flatbush Avenue.

Main Attractions

The World’s Largest Dreidal

The Jewish Children's Museum:

The Jewish Children’s Museum, the largest of its kind in the United States, is located at 790 Eastern Parkway. Opened in 2004, the museum is designed as a teaching tool for children of all religious denominations to learn about Jewish heritage. Its design, including a large dreidal at its front, has received great attention, and has become an architectural landmark and a prominent symbol of the expression of the Jewish faith and culture.

The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens[2]

Perhaps the best-known and largest tourist attraction on Eastern Parkway is the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, a huge horticultural paradise located behind the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Museum and on Eastern Parkway between Flatbush Ave. and Washington Ave.

The Brooklyn Public Library [3]

The Central Library, located on Grand Army Plaza and opening onto Eastern Parkway, is home to over 1.5 million books and resources, and serves almost 2 million people yearly. ^[3].

Located on Schenectady Ave., the Eastern Parkway branch of the Brooklyn Library is a popular site that serves as a research and learning center for the neighborhood. Materials in Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Russian, and Mandarin/Cantonese, are a testament to the old and new immigrant populations being catered to by this valuable service in the community.

The Brooklyn Museum

Located on 200 Eastern Parkway, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has been a major center of arts in the community. Built in the Beaux Art architectural style, the 560,000 square-foot building is both a landmark and a popular site on Eastern Parkway. Housing world-renowned collections of art, the Brooklyn Museum has thousands of visitors every year, who flock to its many and diverse galleries.

Eastern Parkway Itself!

Eastern Parkway is a scenic landmark and popular site in and of itself. Modeled after the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it boasts an array of planted flowers, tall elms, promenades, and decorative footpaths. It is one of New York City’s greatest architectural and city planning triumphs, the first parkway, and a model for future urban planning.

What's old...

is new again...

and will be born anew:future plans for mall restoration

References

1. ↑ Iska, James and Morrone, Francis. The Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. (New York: Gibbs Smith, 2001) pg. 275.
2. ↑ "Grand Army Plaza". Places in Brooklyn. 17 April 2008. <http://www.brooklynplaces.com/index_files/Page568.htm>.
3. ↑ "Central Library." Brooklyn Public Library. 18 April 2008. <http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/branch_library_detail.jsp?branchpageid=265>.
4. ↑ "Images". History of American Landscape and Architecture. 19 April 2008. <http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/lanar525/images/ProspectPark/PParkEastPkwy.jpg>.