What is "prospect park"

Prospect Park may refer to:

• Prospect Park (Brooklyn), a park in Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Prospect Park (Troy, New York), a park in Troy, New York, United States
• Prospect Park (Holyoke, Massachusetts), a park in Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States
• Prospect Park (Ypsilanti, Michigan), a park in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
• Prospect Park (Minneapolis), a neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
• Prospect Park, New Jersey, a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States
• Prospect Park, Mercer County, New Jersey, an unincorporated community in Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States
• Prospect Park, Pennsylvania, a borough in Pennsylvania, United States
• Prospect Park, Reading, a park in Reading, Berkshire, England
• Prospect Park, New Zealand, a park and suburb in Dunedin, New Zealand

Prospect Park in Troy, New York, is an city park that was designed in 1903 by Garnet Baltimore, the first African-American graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

Prospect Park offers a 14-court tennis facility, the only one of its kind in the Troy area.

This park includes the following recreational areas: 14 tennis courts, 4 handball courts, 2 basketball courts, playground, picnic areas, soccer field, comfort station, picnic pavilion, spray pool, nature trail, and a roadway which surrounds the park with eight parking areas.

The park is located off Congress Street, south and slightly west of the RPI campus, in the Mount Ida section of Troy.

Prospect Park is a 585-acre (237 hectare) public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Ditmas Park and Windsor Terrace, as well as Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Prospect Park is run and operated by the Prospect Park Alliance and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It is part of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway.

Prospect Park is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, near the border of Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Park Slope, it is served by the Q and Franklin Avenue Shuttle trains at all times and the B train on weekdays.

Prospect Park (formerly named 29th Avenue) is a light rail station on the Green Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located on 29th Avenue just south of the University of Minnesota Transitway between 4th Street Southeast and University Avenue.

Construction of the rail line along the transitway began in 2011, and station construction beginning in 2012. The station opened along with the rest of the line in 2014.

Prospect Park is a 9.5 acre park in the northeast corner of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is the oldest park in Ypsilanti. This park, which was originally a cemetery, is the home of a retired coastal defense cannon from Maine, and is currently the home of the restored Luna Lake. The park is one block from Ypsilanti's historic Depot Town, where the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival and many car shows are hosted in the summer.

Prospect Park is a Hollywood entertainment production company, founded in 2008 by Richard H. Frank, a former executive at the Walt Disney Television, and Jeff Kwatinetz, former CEO of the talent agency The Firm, Inc., and music manager Peter Katsis. Based in Century City, California, and embodies three distinct business units: music management, record label, and television production. On May 3, 2011, former ABC executive Josh Barry joined the company to lead the production company.

The production company currently produces the USA Network television series Royal Pains, as well as the FX Network series Wilfred and WGN's Salem. The music division is divided into the management department, which guides the careers of music artists, and Prospect Park Records, an independent record label which serves as the label home to artists such as Five Finger Death Punch, Korn, and Mindset Evolution. In 2014, it added British chart toppers You Me at Six and New York rapper Azealia Banks to its roster.

In 2013, Prospect Park launched its own web channel, The Online Network, with revivals of the long-running daytime soap operas One Life to Live and All My Children. Later that year it filed a lawsuit against ABC, the licensee of those series, and the Prospect Park Networks division filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2014. The production and music divisions remained unaffected, and in 2015 were positioned as subordinate entities to a reactivated The Firm, Inc.