Carousel horse dedicated to Margaret Ring, ‘Mayor of Prospect Park’

One of the 53 magnificent horses on the Prospect Park Carousel has been dedicated to the unofficial “Mayor of Prospect Park,” Margaret Ring.

Ring, former Carousel Manager and a familiar face to thousands of regular park goers, has retired after a quarter century of service at the Prospect Park Alliance.

In a celebration at the Carousel on June 2, Alliance President Morgan Monaco unveiled a plaque under Ring’s special horse which reads, “Margaret Ring, in honor of 25 years of loving service.”

A native Brooklynite, Ring has worked all over the park during her tenure — at the Carousel, the former Wollman Rink, the pedal boats and the Parade Ground.

“I have a favorite memory at each site. From place to place, I saw and got to know the same people — the same people visited the carousel and you saw them on the paddle boats. People playing soccer at the Parade Ground were the same people who came to the skating rink,” she said.

Sometimes people will recognize her on the subway, “And I’ll hear ‘Prospect Park is in the house!’ That makes you feel good,” Ring said.

And just the other day she was driving her friend’s car when the battery died on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 65th Street. “A guy jumps out of a car with a jumper to give me a jump. He said, ‘You’re the nice lady at the park who ran the pedal boats.’

“Prospect Park is the Garden of Eden, it’s the jewel,” Ring said, crediting the Alliance for restoring the park to its former glory. “You know, I was that kid who saw it as a beautiful Park … my father ran track here, my parents got engaged here, it was magical. [But when] I used to take my dog up here, I used to have to pull the…