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6 Restoration Projects in the Works for Prospect Park, Alliance Says

 The Oriental Pavilion, located near the park's Lincoln Road entrance and closed to the public since 2014, will get a new roof, lighting and stairways with $2 million in funding from the the city council.
The Oriental Pavilion, located near the park's Lincoln Road entrance and closed to the public since 2014, will get a new roof, lighting and stairways with $2 million in funding from the the city council.
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BROOKLYN — Prospect Park’s east side is getting some love.

More than $5 million has been set aside for four major restoration projects on the park’s eastern edge, the Prospect Park Alliance announced this week. Plans are also in the works for a capital campaign to restore the park’s long-neglected Rose Garden and Vale of Cashmere.

The effort is meant to coincide with the park’s 150th anniversary to take place next year, the Alliance said, though one project — the restoration of woodlands and slopes damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 — will begin this fall with $725,000 in funding from the the state’s Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

Three features of the park will go into the “design phase” this year, the Alliance said. The Oriental Pavilion, located near the park's Lincoln Road entrance and closed to the public since 2014, will get a new roof, lighting and stairways with $2 million in funding from the the city council.

Nearby, the pathway on the Flatbush Avenue side of the park will see improvements, with plans to add trees, replace fencing and widen the sidewalk from 16 to 30 feet with $2.4 million in funding from Council Member Laurie Cumbo and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, the Alliance said.

The “Battle Pass Pathway,” a path that leads from the Prospect Park Zoo to the Zucker Natural Exploration Area, will also be renovated with $200,000 in funding from Council Member Brad Lander.

The Alliance also plans to restore two overgrown areas of the park, the Rose Garden and the Vale of Cashmere both located on the northeast corner between the Long Meadow and Flatbush Avenue. A capital campaign for that project will begin in “the coming year or two”, according to a spokesman for the group.

The Alliance does not yet have an estimate for what the restorations of the Rose Garden and the Vale of Cashmere will cost. In a first report on the project from The New York Times, the Alliance’s landscape architect Christian Zimmerman said the group hopes to create a reflecting pool included in the original design by Frederick Law Olmsted.