Friends of Mount Prospect Park

Friends of Mount Prospect Park is a nonprofit community organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing public green space in Brooklyn’s Mount Prospect Park, for the enjoyment of all. The beloved Stuart Constable park contains the second-highest point in the borough of Brooklyn and was built on the site of the Mount Prospect Reservoir, once a key component of Brooklyn’s water system as an independent city. Dedicated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1939 as  “our monument to the City of New York,” a marker of a new civic leadership and a beacon of progressive government, the park is threatened by a plan to pour concrete throughout its central lawn to build a large skateboard facility. Thousands of park-lovers, Brooklyn Community Board 9, and a raft of organizations committed to environmental health, Brooklyn’s history, community wellbeing, and climate-conscious skateboarding continue to urge officials to preserve the WPA park, officially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places — and to shift any concrete construction to already-paved space.