The Prospect Park Zoo is a zoo located in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York.
The Propect Park zoo first opened in 1989 as a small menagerie. It was expanded in the 1930s as a WPA project, and rededicated on July 3, 1935 as the Prospect Park Zoo. It was renovated once again in the 1980's and reopened on October 5, 1993. It is currently run by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
External links
Prospect Park Zoo web site (http://www.prospectpark.org/dest/main.cfm?target=zoo)
It was the second of three "city zoos" to be renovated and operated by Wildlife Conservation Society, through a partnership with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Unlike the much older Central Park and ProspectParkzoos (which were renovated and reopened by WCS in 1988 and 1993, respectively), the Queens Zoo had only existed since 1968.
The zoo perimeter is a pathway that leads visitors to pockets of wild habitats, from the Great Plains to the rocky California coast to a Northeast forest.
The forerunner of the Propect Parkzoo was called the Menagerie, which began to take shape in the spring of 1890.
Dedicated on July 3, 1935 as the ProspectParkZoo, the buildings constituted an integrated facility designed to exhibit animals, and was seen at the time as a great improvement over the somewhat haphazardly developed Menagerie.
Renovation for the new ProspectParkZoo began in August, 1989, beginning a $37 million renovation for the badly deteriorated zoo.
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