Underwood Park

Underwood Park is a 1.19-acre park at Lafayette Avenue and Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Named for John Thomas Underwood, founder of the Underwood Typewriter Company, the park provides green space in one of Brooklyn's most architecturally elegant residential neighborhoods.

Clinton Hill is known for its grand Victorian mansions, many built by wealthy industrialists in the late 19th century, alongside more modest brownstones and apartment buildings. The neighborhood is home to Pratt Institute, the renowned art and design college, whose campus contributes significant green space and cultural activity.

The park features a playground and seating areas that serve the surrounding residential community. Clinton Hill's proximity to Fort Greene Park provides access to a larger green space, but Underwood Park offers a smaller, more intimate neighborhood park experience.

Clinton Hill has gentrified significantly since the 1990s, with its architectural stock attracting buyers and renters from across the economic spectrum. The park serves a community that values its residential character and proximity to Brooklyn's cultural institutions.

Underwood Park connects the neighborhood to an era when Brooklyn's industrialists built their homes along these handsome streets. The typewriter company that bears Underwood's name revolutionized office work; the park that bears his name serves the daily needs of a neighborhood that has always attracted creative and enterprising residents.