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Parkside Playground

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Winthrop St. between Rogers Ave. and Bedford Ave.

Brooklyn

Directions: Google Maps | MTA Trip Planner

Acres: 1.25

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

This playground and the nearby avenue take their names from the 1902 dedication of Fort Hamilton Parkway, between New York and Coney Island Avenues, as Parkside Avenue. This renaming honored the avenue’s new “park side” location, the park being Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

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