In November 2020, one of the most striking features of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park reopened after a long restoration process. After years of being hidden, the Endale Arch once again offers the portal into the park that its designers envisioned. Landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux unveiled their vision for Prospect Park in the 1860s. They saw this arch, one of the first architectural elements constructed in the park, as a “transporting entrance to the majestic Long Meadow from Grand Army Plaza,” according to the Prospect Park Alliance. It…
