A Brooklyn icon has been restored. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza reopened on Thursday following a $8.9 million renovation , the city’s Parks Department and the Prospect Park Alliance announced . The two-year project replaced the arch’s roof, cleaned and replaced the brick and stone structure, repaired interiors, including the cast-iron spiral staircase, and added new lighting. The landscape surrounding the arch was also revitalized with new plants, trees, paving, and an accessible curb cut.

Grand Army Plaza was designed in 1867 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as the formal entrance to Prospect Park. Designed by John H. Duncan, the architect behind Grant’s Tomb in Morningside Heights, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch opened in 1892 as a

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