Brooklyn, Parks

Sitting near Wisdom and Felicity. 

New york — There is an inexorable force that pulls me into the oval. Placed here in 1866 by Calvert Vaux, before the memorial arch of soldiers and sailors crowned with Lady Columbia on her chariot, before the Art Deco public library across the street built to look like an open book, this planned oval introduces Prospect Park. Five years in Brooklyn, four apartments, and so many neighborhood walks later, I f...