The 1.31 acre Flaherty Park on Cornwell and Brookside Streets is a significant neighborhood park in the Brookside neighborhood. Although in poor condition in recent years, the park was renovated in 2002, with bright new playground equipment on its southern side. There is a naturalistic sitting area in the midst of vegetation, which overlooks a large, paved, passive area in the center. Neighborhood children often use the paved area in the park for sports such as baseball, for which the park is not designed. The park is bordered by a sturdy, black, waist-high chainlink fence.

The intersection of Centre Street, Day Street, and Perkins Street, is commonly called “the square” despite its traffic circle configuration. The small green space in the rotary is officially known by the Boston Parks Department as Mahoney Square.

The mural in Mozart Park is a bridge, telling the story of this violent history while speaking of a hopeful future. Originally painted in 1987 by artists from Boston and Nicaragua through a program called “Arts for a New Nicaragua,” the mural was updated in 2001 by youth from the Hyde Square Task Force. The mural shows scenes from the Central American countryside. In the mural, George Washington stands next to conga players, illustrating the diversity of the area. Tropical fish and dancers hint at the Central American roots of the community. A “matchstick man” symbolizes landlords who in the late ‘80s burned down their own houses to collect insurance money. The images in the mural meander through the Central American countryside back to the city. The renovation of the Mozart Park mural in 2001 was an effort to stem crime, in addition to a desperately needed update to what was then a 14-year-old piece of art.

In September 1989, the Jamaica Plain Historical Society first turned its attention to one person's presence here which is commemorated a by a fine granite memorial. A formal bench with central shaft, from which emerges a forest Indian, erected by friends of Francis Parkman in 1906, marks the approximate site of Mr. Parkman's home, called "Sunnyside" and its accompanying gardens between Prince Street and the northwest corner of Jamaica Pond. The memorial also serves as a reminder of all the Pondside properties taken by the City for the Jamaica (now Olmsted) Park project of the 1890's. For a long time, the memorial was lacking the bas-relief of the historian, and most of the letters in the bench's floor were missing. These victims of vandalism, taken during the Vietnam War when brass's price soared, were going to be replaced. In 1990, the historian's face was back, thanks to the Henderson Foundation of the City of Boston who used new technology and materials other than brass for the bas-relief. Also, the memorial began to be decorated anonymously that fall and holiday seasons.

The playground is isolated from all other public resources. It backs up to Forest Hills Cemetery and a fence with no gate. A long-neglected playground, Parkman has recently been reinvigorated with new park equipment and a cleanup effort.

On the corner of Rossmore and Stedman Streets there is a corner park with benches and several trees along the border known as Rossmore/ Stedman Park. The site is bereft of trees, and the center is surfaced with asphalt. Benches in the park face each other and the asphalt center. The park is seldom used.