Franz Sigel Park Comfort Station

671 Grand Conc | also 613 Grand Concourse | Concourse Village | built 1996

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1885
The city buys the Walton family's Cedar Grove estate, the land that becomes Franz Sigel Park
Most of the ground under today's Franz Sigel Park was bought by New York City from Gerard and Mary Walton in 1885. Their estate was called Cedar Grove, and the new park was first named Cedar Park after it. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the park's western slope was once part of a Native American pathway.
“Most of the land that comprises the park was purchased by the city from Gerard and Mary Walton in 1885, whose estate, Cedar Grove, was the inspiration for the original name…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1993
A concrete comfort station with a copper roof is built in Franz Sigel Park
The park's restroom building went up in 1993, according to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is a concrete structure with a standing-seam copper roof, set among the ball fields, bleachers and tennis courts at the south end of the 16-acre park. Those active recreation areas date from 1964, when softball fields and basketball courts were added.
“…in 1964, softball fields, basketball courts, and other active recreation facilities were installed; the comfort station was built in 1993…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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