Cadman Plaza Park
What was here before?Prior to European settlement, Brooklyn Heights was a Lenape village named Ihpetonga, meaning “high ...

Cadman Plaza/Brooklyn Bridge - Peregrine Falcons in New York City
This park, named for Brooklyn Congregational minister and radio preacher Reverend Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864-1936), is a p...

Call of the Sea Sculpture
This lively bronze sculpture, in which a young girl rides on the back of a dolphin, was sculpted in 1923 by Harriet Frishmuth ...

Callahan-Kelly Park
What was here before? Callahan-Kelly Park lies at the northern edge of the neighborhood of Brownsville, named for real estate...

Calvert Vaux Park
What was here before? The Coney Island Creek that runs through the park was once home to small ports and shipyards, and in ...

Calvert Vaux Park - Ospreys in New York City
This 73-acre park, named for the English architect who co-designed Central and Prospect Parks, provides a diverse ecosystem, s...

Camperdown Elm
The Camperdown Elm (Ulmus glabra ‘Camperdownii’) was propagated in the late 1830s when a mutant Scots Elm bra...

Canarsie Park
What was here before?The Canarsie resided here for thousands of years and called the area now known as the Flatlands, Keskateu...

Captain John McKenna, IV Park
What was here before?First inhabited by the Canarsie, the area now known as Windsor Terrace was later owned in the nineteenth ...

Carl Maria Von Weber Statue
This bronze bust of the German composer Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786-1826) was created by sculptor Chester Beach...

Carmine Carro Community Center
Located at the northern side of Marine Park on Fillmore Avenue, the Carmine Carro Community Center opened on March 1, 2013. Th...

Carroll Park
Brooklyn's third-oldest park is named for Charles Carroll (1737-1832), an American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Decl...

Carroll Park War Memorial
Serving as the symbolic centerpiece of this neighborhood park and playground, the Carroll Park War Memorial honors the memory ...

Carver Playground
Carver Playground was named in honor of George Washington Carver (1864-1943), famed African-American educator and agricultural...

Century Playground
For well over 100 years, Brighton Beach and adjacent Coney Island were world-renowned as “America’s Playground.&qu...

Charlie's Place
What was here before? This was once the site of the Delmonico Farm and more specifically, the driveway to the Delmonico Vil...

Chester Playground
Chester Playground is located in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a neighborhood bounded to the north by Eastern Parkway, ...

Chiarantano Playground
This park is named after Anthony Chiarantano (1934-1974), an East Flatbush resident who played a major role in the acquisition...

Christopher Columbus Statue
Based on speculative maps, Italian sailor Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) concluded that there was a quicker route from Europ...

City Line Park
City Line Park, located within the Brooklyn neighborhood of City Line, a section of Flatbush close to the Queens County border...