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Calvert Vaux Park, Brooklyn, NY

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Calvert Vaux Park

Walk the Gravesend Bay waterfront, watch shorebirds, or catch a ball game at a Brooklyn park built from Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge fill.

Gravesend Bay, Bay 44 St. to Bay 49 St., Shore Pkwy., Brooklyn, NY 11214 · Brooklyn, NY

About Calvert Vaux Park

Calvert Vaux Park covers about 85 acres on a peninsula facing Gravesend Bay, just north of Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn. Much of it was built from sand, soil and rock dug out for the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and it is named for the architect who designed Central Park and Prospect Park with Frederick Law Olmsted. Today it has a restored waterfront with bay views and birds, six baseball diamonds, a soccer field, turf fields, basketball and bocce courts and a playground.

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