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Cadman Plaza Park
Category: Active Life Parks Parks [Edit]
Cadman Plaza W and Tillary StBrooklyn, NY 11201
Neighborhood: Brooklyn Heights
- Nearest Transit:
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Clark St (2, 3)
Court St (N, R)
High St (A, C)
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
7 reviews for Cadman Plaza Park
7 reviews in English
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Review from William B.
Palo Alto, CA
5/25/2010
A tiny little park-- crowded, noisy, and obviously well-loved. I thought it made the perfect venue for a New York wedding, so long as you don't mind some kids playing a noisy game of baseball about fifty feet to your right, and traffic blowing by in the background.
Not someplace you'd make a trip for, unless for example some dear friends of yours were getting married there, but excellent in its own small way. -
Review from Tina B.
8/27/2010 21 Check-ins Here
I love this little park. It's not really a park to spend all day in. But it's a great area to walk through, stop and rest or take your dog.
It's at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge so it's a good place to chill after walking in from Manhattan. I always made an effort to walk through the park on my way to work rather than on the city streets. -
Review from Abigail S.
Miami, FL
4/18/2008
This park is beautifully landscaped, with softly paved running trails that wind along its length and a giant fake grass lawn in the center for pick-up soccer games and ant-free picnics. A huge memorial to Brooklynites who served in WWII takes up the center of the park, and offers a great alternative to the many benches that dot the area.
A perfect resting spot for tourists on their way to and from the Brooklyn Bridge, this is also a great destination for locals hoping to eat lunch outside or have a quiet place to sit with a good book in the sun.
Highly recommended. -
Review from Jonathan G.
Verona, NJ
This park has changed a lot over the years, all for the better. The main play space, mostly used for soccer, football, baseball, etc. is not grass, but artificial turf. To play organized sports here you do need to pay and reserve space I believe. There is plenty of room for about 4 different large, organized activities to be going on at a time.
The park is lined with benches on each side and also has an entire back side, behind the monument, that is less manicured and with much more shade. This is a great place to sit and relax on the benches or on the stairs to the monument. There are two large public bathrooms here as well.
You can bring your dogs through here, but nothing off-leash at this part. There is no kids playground or anything, but ample space to bring sports equipment and play, even if the main field is full.
TIME MACHINE THROW BACK SEGMENT:
I used to play here as a kid and the main field used to be one of those fields where you played soccer, made a slide tackle and came up with glass in your knee. Somehow, that was awesome. It still looks the same after 25 years, but much prettier overall. -
Review from Dan T.
Manorville, NY
Beautiful park well-attended and used for various activities, even if it is surrounded by boisterous traffic and vociferous construction ATM. Good respite between the rest of BK and the BB area; rest your weary legs if you feel so obliged.
With copious bags of sweets at my disposal, I hit up Cadman Plaza Park, a space I've only ever had the time to walk through previously. It's pretty serene and majestic as far as NYC 'parks' go, close to the water/bridge and with a good layout. It's bustling but not overly loud, pretty centrally located, and an all-around good spot to plop down for a few. -
Review from Matt E.
8/6/2008
3.5 stars. This park is in the corner of Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn and is right next to the entrance to walk on the Brooklyn Bridge and a couple blocks from the Promenade. One side of this park is beautifully landscaped with flowers, walkways, benches and a large turfed area (I always thought it was perfect grass until I went there and saw it was the expensive grass-like turf), this side also has a beautiful memorial to Brooklynites who died during WWII. The one thing I didn't like about this side is that it borders the Court House and there were benches of jackasses making comments when I went to take a couple pics of the field. If it weren't for the dirtbags I'd bump up the place to a 4. On the plus side most of the people here are nice families and kids playing around which is nice to see. On the park's defense, I pass the park daily and rarely see the type of people that I had to deal with that one day so I'll definitely be back.
Behind the memorial is the second half of the park which is much quieter and relaxing. When I went the grass hadn't seen a mower in quite some time and there was a huge patch down the center where grass had given up growing. This area is mainly shaded by trees and has a path around it lined with benches. -
Review from Thea T.
New York, NY
5/3/2009
one beautiful place to come to walk, stroll with your dog, enjoy the beauty of the enviable view of manhattan and the brooklyn bridge. it's a great spot to look for falcons flying too... ah!
