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Prospect Park Celebrates Audubon Center's 10th Year
This weekend, the park will host a birthday event for the center, as well as Earth Day.
This Saturday, Prospect Park will celebrate the 42nd annual Earth Day, as well as the 10th birthday of the park’s Audubon Center, with free events like nature walks and lakeshore clean-ups.
The event starts at noon on April 22 and lasts until 4 p.m. Activities include: making musical instruments from recycled materials, a performance and parade by Bash the Trash, boats on display from Brooklyn Boatworks, bird of prey tours at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and a visit to the Beat Cave, where visitors can record their memories of the Audubon Center.
There will also be a special cake to celebrate the Audubon Center’s 10 years in Prospect Park, as well as to honor the April 26 birthday of two important figures in Prospect Park and Audubon history: park designer Frederick Law Olmsted and ornithologist and painter John James Audubon.
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As the first urban-area Audubon Center in the nation, Prospect Park’s center opened in 2002 as a place of active nature discovery, with hands-on exhibits and programming for children and adults. The Audubon Center is housed in Prospect Park’s landmark Boathouse, constructed in 1905 and restored by the Prospect Park Alliance.
The Prospect Park Audubon Center at the Boathouse is located inside the Lincoln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance.