Washington Square Park
Coordinates: 40 ° 43 ′ 51 ″ N , 73 ° 59 ′ 51 ″ W.
The Washington Square Park is one of the best known of the more than 1,700 public parks in New York City . Located between Greenwich Village and the East Village at New York University , the facility covers an area of 3.95 hectares .
history
From 1797 the area served as a public burial place. In 1823 the area was declared a park. The streets around the park became a preferred residential area from the 1830s. From 1869/1870 the formal layout was redesigned by Ignaz Pilat , together with the engineer Montgomery Alexander Kellogg . It was one of the first redesign projects of the "Department of Public Parks" founded in 1870 (head: William Grant ), of which Pilat was the chief landscape planner.
Plans of the Park Commissioners Robert Moses , the Fifth Avenue to extend through the park round were in the 1950s by local citizens' groups, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Jane Jacobs fought successfully. Since the 1940s it has developed into a meeting place for folk musicians , with the climax during the folk boom in the early 1960s, when z. B. Bob Dylan also played here. There were always problems with the city administration because of the volume. In 1961 there was even a small "beatnik uprising" when the police wanted to forbid making music.
The park has been under construction since 2007, with a budget of 16 million dollars.
Washington Square Arch , Hangman's Elm and the Central Fountain are on the premises . Like all public parks in Manhattan , the park is managed and administered by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation , the New York City Authority.
The park is also used as the center of the location-based game Pac-Manhattan .
Web links
- New York: Construction workers find burial chambers under park . Süddeutsche.de, November 7, 2015