McGorlick Park

A brick-and-limestone shelter pavilion, built in 1910 by Helmle and Huberty, anchors this park, which Brooklyn acquired in 1889 and opened two years later as Winthrop Park before renaming it in 1941 for Monsignor Edward McGolrick, who spent fifty years as pastor of the neighborhood's St. Cecilia's Church. The pavilion is both a city landmark and on the National Register. Two monuments line the park's central axis: a 1923 memorial to 150 local soldiers of the First World War, and a 1939 sculpture of the ironclad Monitor and Merrimack, honoring the warship built nearby in Greenpoint.