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Washington Market Park

Public park in Manhattan, New York

Washington Market Park
Summary

Public park in Manhattan, New York

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nameWashington Market Park
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photo_captionWashington Market Park. The towers of the World Financial Center can be seen in the background (center, skyline).
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area1.61 acre

Washington Market Park is an urban park located in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The park, which is bounded by Greenwich, Chambers, and West Streets, covers 1.61 acre. The park also has community gardens and a large playground and hosts many community events.

History

The city of New York proposed the construction of a municipal parking lot on a disused dump site located just south of the Independence Plaza apartments in the late 1970s. Residents of TriBeCa, including former New York City councilwoman Kathryn E. Freed, protested the planned parking lot and campaigned for a new city park in their neighborhood. At the time, the tiny, triangular Duane Park was one of the few green spaces in TriBeCa. The activists successfully persuaded officials to build a park, which was called Washington Market Park, instead of the parking lot.

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In the late 1970s, a federally-funded Community Block Development Grant was obtained from the city and used to design and build the existing park. Lee Weintraub, then an architect with the city's Housing and Development Administration (HDA), was assigned to design the park. A not-for-profit corporation, Washington Market Community Park, Inc, was created in 1978 to oversee the park, to be run by a board of directors elected by the community.

Washington Market Park opened in April 1983. It is named for the former Washington Market, which functioned as New York City's most important wholesale produce market, reaching its peak between 1880 and 1910. New York City tore down the nearby, former Washington Market buildings in the 1960s when the wholesale produce industry relocated to Hunts Point in the Bronx.

In 2003, Mayor Michael Bloomberg included Washington Market Park as one of twelve parks in Lower Manhattan which received a combined $25 million in upgrades from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

References

References

  1. Senft, Bret. (September 26, 1993). "If You're Thinking of Living In/TriBeCa; Families Are the Catalyst for Change". [[The New York Times]].
  2. (4 May 2012). "Historic Preservation Saved New York!".
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  4. Landis, Dylan. (May 15, 1983). "If You're Thinking of Living In Tribeca". [[The New York Times]].
  5. Saltonstall, David. (May 28, 2003). "Parks Downtown To Be Dolled Up". [[Daily News (New York).
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