by NYC Parks
Lincoln Road Playground offers a dedicated children's area inside Prospect Park, where kids can climb and play on structures made for them. Accessible swings let children who need extra support share the swing set with everyone else. In warm weather the spray showers turn a playground visit into an easy water-play outing.
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Open dawn to dusk; spray showers run in summer on hot days
Free; no registration
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Ages 0–12.
Free; no registration
Open dawn to dusk; spray showers run in summer on hot days
Prospect Park, Lincoln Rd & Ocean Ave, 11225, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.
No. Lincoln Road Playground is outdoors, so plan for weather, sunscreen and water.
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