Prospect Park
Nethermead Arch, Prospect Park. "Unlike Central Park, where the arches are brick-lined, in Prospect Park the designers thought to line the Endale Arch w/zebra-like alternating stripes of black walnut & yellow pine, “to avoid the drip which would occur from the condensation of moisture,” according to the 1870 Annual Report of the Brooklyn Park Commissioners. The arches were conceived as rooms & had seats, out of the sun, “where weariness may be lounged off,” as The New York Times put it in 1869."
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