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The Prospect Park Zoo is an eight acre zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York. Its precursor, the Menagerie, had first opened in 1890. The present zoo opened on July 3, 1935. [2] It's construction was part of a larger program of revitalization of city parks, playgrounds and zoos initiated in 1934 by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses and was built, in large part, through Civil Works Administration and Works Project Administration (WPA) labor and funding. [1] After 53 years of operation as a city zoo by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, this "first" zoo closed in June 1988 for reconstruction.[3] The closure signaled the start of a five year, $37 million dollar renovation program, that, save for the exteriors of the 1930's-era buildings, completely replaced the zoo. It was rededicated on October 5, 1993 [1] as the Prospect Park Wildlife Conservation Center, [4] joining an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). [5] The Prospect Park Zoo presently offers children's educational programs, is engaged in restoration of endangered species populations, runs a Wildlife Theater and reaches out to the local community through volunteer programs. As of 2005, the zoo housed nearly four hundred animals representing about one hundred species; it was visited by about 220,000 people in 2005. [6]
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