Eric Goldstein, an attorney with the National Resources Defense Council, said he would like similar efforts in other parks, like Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

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Next head across the Brooklyn Bridge to stroll the deliciously breezy Brooklyn Heights Promenade, catch an outdoor Shakespeare performance in Brooklyn's vast green Prospect Park, and scoop up a butter pecan sundae at the waterfront Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory (1 Water St), housed in a 1920s fireboat house.

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He mentioned that he had seen The National at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

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