Prospect Park wants you to take a seat.
On Monday the Prospect Park Alliance unveiled Adirondack chairs where the public can take a load off and take in the scenery at locations throughout the park. Five chairs were available for use as of Monday and another six will be installed in the coming weeks, an Alliance spokeswoman said.
Here's a map that shows where they are.
The seats are strategically positioned to allow users to "enjoy Brooklyn's largest living work of art," the Alliance said.
“This is really a chance for the public to enjoy the park as designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux envisioned,” said Alliance president Sue Donoghue.
"Prospect Park was intended as a series of carefully designed landscapes that work in harmony to recreate the serenity of the countryside in the heart of Brooklyn. We can’t wait to see how park visitors embrace this.”
The seats will be available for use through the end of August, then the Alliance will give two of them away through a contest it's holding on social media. The winners will be selected at random.
Entrants must post a photo of either one of the chairs or the view from it and tag it #ProspectParkIt. Also, you have to be able to take home the chair yourself, so make sure you have the strength to carry one of the wooden seats, which are about three feet tall and weigh 25 pounds, an Alliance spokeswoman said.
The nine other perches could remain in the park after summer's end, depending on "the public's engagement with the chairs," the spokeswoman said.
The seats were handcrafted by students at Paul Smith's College in upstate New York, the only four-year private college inside the 6-million-acre Adirondack Park, according to the institution's website.
