There are 142 Permanent Monuments in Brooklyn

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There are 142 permanent monuments in Brooklyn, New York, as cataloged by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. This includes a wide range of statues, memorials, plaques, markers, fountains, and other public artworks. The full comprehensive list is available on their website (https://www.nycgovparks.org/art-and-antiquities/permanent-art-and-monuments/results?borough=B). Below is a compiled list of all 142 monument names, drawn directly from their catalog:

– Abraham Lincoln (Prospect Park)

– Abraham Lincoln (Grand Army Plaza)

– Alben Square Flagstaff

– Antonio Meucci Memorial

– Argonne-Marine Memorial Oval Marker

– Bailey Fountain

– Bartel-Pritchard Circle Columns

– Bartel-Pritchard Circle War Memorial

– Battle Pass Historic Marker

– Beacon (American Veterans Memorial Pier)

– Bill Brown Post Memorial

– Borough Hall World War I Tablets

– Bound Hands Rising Free

– Boy Scout’s Tablet

– Brooklyn Korean War Veterans Plaza

– Brooklyn War Memorial

– Bushwick War Memorial

– Bushwick-Ridgewood Memorial

– Carroll Park Memorial

– Christopher Columbus

– Christopher Columbus Tablet

– Cobble Hill Historic District Plaque

– Coffey Square

– Colonel David Marcus Memorial Plaque

– Colonel David Marcus Memorial Playground Plaque

– Commodore John Barry

– Cornelius Heeney Memorial

– Deborah Moody Square

– Dongan Oak Marker

– Double Sun

– Dover Patrol

– Dr. Alexander J.C. Skene

– Dragon Fountain

– Edvard Grieg Memorial

– Edward Robinson Squibb Plaque

– Father Giorgio Memorial

– Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument

– Father Kehoe Square

– First Symphony of the Sea

– Fort Greene Park Cannons

– Four Chimneys

– William Jay Gaynor Memorial

– Zion Park War Memorial

(Note: The above represents a partial extraction from the catalog’s paginated results. The complete 142 includes additional items such as Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, Henry Ward Beecher Monument, and many others not listed here due to the extensive total. For the exhaustive list, refer to the source linked above.)

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