Cadman Plaza Park

Took my little one here to see Frozen at the park and was pleasantly surprised that the grass is a plastic green turf. I was grateful for that because it’s easier to keep clean. There’s plenty of wide open space but just beware of the traffic you have to pass through to get to this area because it’s close to the bridge.

Cadman Plaza Park is the veritable town green of Brooklyn, flanked by its state buildings and courthouses. I often cross it when I’m walking Olive to the Brooklyn Bridge – but never on the astroturf! Dogs aren’t allowed on the astroturf!
This is smart; I often see groups of kids having field days on the turf, and it would be a serious downer for a kid to slide into a dog turd. There are still too many people who refuse to clean up after their dogs, and they ruin it for everyone else.
In the winter, of course, I pass by and see people walking their dogs on the ice; naturally no one says anything. It’s beautiful to have this much open space anywhere, and it’s particularly fitting here. Also, there’s a war memorial right in the center, which gives it gravity.

I walk through this park a lot on my way to and from work. It’s a huge beautiful area with tons of trees, benches to sit and a few paths to walk down. If you’re in the area and looking for a quiet spot to rest or eat lunch, this is perfect.

Excellent park for anything. If you want to go for a run, there is a running track going around the perimeter of the park. If you are looking for a game of soccer, football, or four square bring a ball and have fun. Or even if your just looking for a quiet place to read a book, the copious amounts of benched will provide an excellent experience for you. Cadman is a great place for kids to play, rest, and just have fun!!!

A really random park. I’ve biked past it multiple times after biking through the miserable biking planks of the Brooklyn Bridge (nice for a romantic stroll, but I like to go fast with Lucinda… so f*ck that and the no space available).
Anyway, this space is basically just a lot of space. It’s tough to get to (lack of subway stop), not very scenic, and not enough people traffic around the area to feel safe in this park during the later hours. It was around 6:00 mid-​summer, and the place was still so desolate that even with sunlight I felt like I was gonna be stalked and hunted down like a tasty treat (nobody, not even vendors on the streets).
A bit of a shame too, it’s a nice piece of land that’s just taking up space, being useless. Also, the bees don’t do a good job of having me advocate this place to the fullest. Maybe, during mid-​day, if your lady friend (or boyfriend, «lover», paramour, partner, etc.) is willing to bike, and you want a bit of privacy… you could probably find some in this park. If you can do away with the privacy a bit (with the rest of the aforementioned factors applying), and you’d rather have some nice views of the Brooklyn Bridge and the waterfront… just go to Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Beautiful park. The lawn is nice and well manicured. The walking path is soft and clean, never crowded. This is a park that children come to play after school or in between activities. There aren’t any swings or actual playground activities here but it’s a great place to put the imagination to work.
I enjoy taking an afternoon stroll and looking at the flowers and trees when its nice out.

Cadman Plaza Park sits in Brooklyn Heights directly opposite from the Pedestrian walkway entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge. When coming from Manhattan on the Brooklyn Bridge it is a good way to end the day at Cadman Plaza Park. It has a beautiful memorial to Brooklynites who served in World War II. Across the street only two blocks away, conveniently available is the A, C trains of High Street/​Brooklyn Bridge station.

Great place to hang for a quick outdoor lunch session. Great if you want to chill, smoke a cigarette, and keep off the jury duties you were assigned to. Overall a nice little park. A tad noisy though. But chilled as f**k.

Great place to hang out. Beautiful sky and nice buildings surround it.
Excellent for finding pick-​up soccer games.
Conveniently close to NYC, Brooklyn, Queens, and has lots of things to do and places to eat locally.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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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.

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!

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.

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.