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- Brooklyn's Prospect Park is undergoing a branding effort to help build awareness of Vaux & Olmstead's largest NYC attraction.
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Prospect Park was designed by Vaux and Olmstead (Calvert and Frederick Law respectively).
Of course, thank you. When I see the opportunity to put the letters L&O into any sentence on this site, it just becomes automatic. Prospect Park Investigators: "Law & Olmstead"
Excuse me, but since when is Prospect Park "Vaux & Olmstead's largest NYC attraction"? At only 585 acres, it's quite a bit smaller than Central Park at 843 acres, also from the minds of V&O.
That photograph is so soft that I became nauseous and puked all over my keyboard.
Completely unrelated, but I wanted to let you all know that I arrived in Bosnia under sniper fire.
some moron yelled out a joke during a broadway play? i guess he thought he was at a tyler perry movie.