Brooklyn War Memorial

The Brooklyn War Memorial stands before you as a massive granite and limestone monument dedicated to the three hundred thousand Brooklyn residents who served in World War Two. Dedicated in nineteen fifty-one, the structure was the vision of the city's powerful Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who preferred a single, grand borough monument over the scattered, smaller tributes found in other cities. Because funding fell short of the original, more expansive architectural plan, the version you see today is actually a scaled-down testament to the borough's ambition.