Forest Park

Highlights

PFC Lawrence Strack Meadow

This meadow honors Private First Class Lawrence George E. Strack (1948-1967), the first Woodhaven resident to die serving in the Vietnam War. Strack was born on June 15,… Read More

Pine Grove

This stand of pine trees was planted in 1914, after a fungus infected and killed 15,000 chestnut trees in 1912.  Through the years, new pines have been planted in… Read More

Richmond Hill Doughboy

This bronze statue of a bareheaded infantryman pausing at the grave of a fallen comrade was dedicated in 1926 as a gift of the people of Richmond Hill to commemorate… Read More

Sobelsohn Playground

William Sobelsohn (1929–1982) was an activist in the Kew Gardens community. He was born in Brooklyn on July 6, 1929 and graduated from Queens College. He and his wife,… Read More

Statue of Job

This five foot bronze statue of Job, mounted on a two foot schist and concrete base is one of two casts of a sculpture created by Natan J. Rapoport (1911-1987) for the… Read More

The Carousel

The Forest Park Carousel holds some of the last surviving creations of master wood-carver Daniel Carl Muller. After emigrating from Germany in the 1880s, Muller settled… Read More

The Overlook

In 1898 the five boroughs were consolidated to form the City of New York; at that time what was then the Brooklyn Parks Department managed the parklands in what is now all… Read More

Wallenberg Square

This square honors Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (1912-1947), the heroic rescuer of numerous Hungarian Jews from the Nazi policies of persecution and extermination during World… Read More