Prospect Park Zoo
450 Flatbush Avenue | also 95 Prospect Park West | Prospect Park | built 1931
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- 1935
The new Prospect Park Zoo is dedicated and draws 150,000 visitors on its first day
The zoo opened with grounds and building exteriors designed by Aymar Embury II. It was built in large part with labor and funding from the Civil Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration. Some 150,000 people came on the first day.
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- 1980
The city and the New York Zoological Society sign a fifty-year deal to run the Prospect Park Zoo
The Koch administration agreed with the New York Zoological Society to hand management of three city zoos to the Society for fifty years. The arrangement covered the zoos in Central Park, Prospect Park and Queens, with the Prospect Park Zoo under the Society's management.
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- 1993
The zoo reopens as the Prospect Park Wildlife Conservation Center after five years closed
The zoo had shut to the public in June 1988 for reconstruction. When it came back on October 5, 1993, it carried a new name, the Prospect Park Wildlife Conservation Center. The sea lion pool occupies the center of the court formed by the zoo's buildings.
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- 2012
The zoo's Discovery Center reopens after a renovation
The Discovery Center is a building on the zoo's north wing with classrooms and laboratories, aimed at showing school-age children how environmental and wildlife scientists investigate. It reopened in December 2012 after a renovation.
“The Discovery Center reopened in December 2012 following a renovation.”
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