Vale of Cashmere (New York City, New York)
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“Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere/ With its roses the brightest the earth ever gave.”
Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Prospect Park with Calvert Vaux, hated the name, but it had become popular by the 1890s and it stuck, according to Neil deMause’s “Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.”
The secluded vale, in the park’s northeastern end just south of Grand Army Plaza, was originally part of the Children’s Playground and the site of the park’s first carousel. But the area was not popular, and was described in an 1893 park report as “an arid waste” before being remodeled. The vale is now decorated with simple fountains surrounded by a sunken garden of lush growth. MICHAEL POLLAK, New York Times
Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Prospect Park with Calvert Vaux, hated the name, but it had become popular by the 1890s and it stuck, according to Neil deMause’s “Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.”
The secluded vale, in the park’s northeastern end just south of Grand Army Plaza, was originally part of the Children’s Playground and the site of the park’s first carousel. But the area was not popular, and was described in an 1893 park report as “an arid waste” before being remodeled. The vale is now decorated with simple fountains surrounded by a sunken garden of lush growth. MICHAEL POLLAK, New York Times
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Coordinates: 40°40'7"N 73°58'5"W
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- Spring Creek Park / Spring Creek Park Addition 7.7 km
- Barren Island 8.2 km
- Floyd Bennett Field (NOP) 8.8 km
- Liberty State Park 10 km
- Forest Park 10 km
- The Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor 12 km
- High Rock Park 16 km
- La Tourette Park 19 km
- Great Kills Park 19 km
- Park Slope 1.2 km
- Prospect Lefferts Gardens 1.5 km
- Proposed Interboro Express Route 1.8 km
- Gowanus 2 km
- Crown Heights 2.3 km
- Clinton Hill 2.3 km
- Bedford 2.6 km
- Flatbush 2.6 km
- Bedford-Stuyvesant 3.7 km
- Hudson County, New Jersey 11 km
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