Old Prospect Park Boulders Will Be Used At New Entrance

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — More than two dozen large boulders dug up during construction of a new health center will be used for a new Flatbush Avenue entrance to Prospect Park.

Crews working near Sixth Street and Eighth Avenue, the site of NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital’s new Center for Community Health, dug up 30 old boulders that are believed to be of similar composition to the rocks in Prospect Park.

The hospital donated the quartz granite boulders to the Prospect Park Alliance, the nonprofit that works with the city to manage the park, to be used with the city's "Parks without Borders" initiative.

"The boulders donated by the Hospital are an exact geological match for the rocks in Prospect Park because
they come from the same terrain and appear identical aesthetically to what has been in the Park for 150 years," Christian Zimmerman, vice president of capital and landscape management for the Prospect Park Alliance, said in a statement.

The boulders were dug up in late July and early August. Construction at the site is ongoing.

Lyn Hill, the vice president for communication and external affairs at the hospital said in a statement that "in the 1990s, the Hospital provided a geological transplant when boulders were sent to Prospect Park during
excavation of the Hospital’s current Medical Office Pavilion on Seventh Avenue."

Those boulders were used in park’s Woodlands Project.

Image courtesy New York-Presbyterian