Prospect Park Long Meadow
— the longest open lawn in any American park.
Not only on a wall.
Prospect Park Long Meadow, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A mile of unbroken meadow running north to south through the center of Prospect Park, the longest open lawn in any American city park. Olmsted and Vaux laid it out in the 1860s after finishing Central Park; they thought of Prospect as the better of the two. On Saturdays in May it fills with picnic blankets, frisbees, dog walkers, and the slow drift of bagpipers practicing under the plane trees at the south end. — from the studio
The place, in three passes.
The Long Meadow stretches about a mile from the Grand Army Plaza entrance south to the Bandshell, covering roughly 90 acres in the northwest half of Prospect Park. It is the longest unbroken stretch of meadow in any city park in the United States. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed the meadow as the centerpiece of Prospect Park, which opened in 1867. Both men considered Prospect their better work, and the meadow's long, gently rolling sweep was the reason.
The meadow turns over with the year. April brings the first picnic blankets and the cherry blossoms at the north end. May and June carry the strongest grass and the loudest weekend crowds. July and August fill with shaded edges and the Bandshell's free Celebrate Brooklyn concerts. October bronzes the London plane trees that line the path. After the first heavy snow, cross-country skiers cut the first tracks down the slope from Endale Arch by morning.
The meadow is open daily from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m., free, with no ticket. The closest subway stop is Grand Army Plaza on the 2/3 line; the Bandshell is a short walk from 15th Street/Prospect Park on the F/G. Dogs run off-leash before 9 a.m. and after 9 p.m. Picnic, frisbee, soccer, and pickup baseball are the daily rhythm. The Audubon Center on the east side of the meadow runs walks and nature programs most weekends.
