Columbus Park comfort station
95 Bayard Street | also 55 Mulberry Street | Chinatown | built 1934
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- 1897
Mulberry Bend Park opens where the Five Points slum stood
Calvert Vaux planned a park for the Mulberry Bend in the 1880s, and it opened in the summer of 1897 with curving, bench-lined walkways and a broad lawn. It replaced some of the tenement blocks that Jacob Riis had called the foul core of the city's slums, on a site bounded by Baxter, Worth, Bayard and Mulberry Streets. The park was renamed Columbus Park in 1911.
Source: nycgovparks.org
- 1934
A limestone recreation building goes up in Columbus Park
In 1934 a limestone recreation center was erected in Columbus Park. The building still stands and now serves as a public restroom. Later work changed the grounds around it, with new playground equipment and basketball courts in the 1980s and more equipment, paving and safety surfacing in 1999.
Source: nycgovparks.org
- 1934
Columbus Park reopens on Columbus Day with 442 homing pigeons
Construction began that August to add trees and enlarge the playground. When the park reopened on Columbus Day, an estimated 15,000 people attended. The Bronx Homing Pigeon Club released 442 homing pigeons, one for each year since 1492.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1936
Chinatown holds its first Community Play Day in Columbus Park
From 1936 the park hosted an annual Chinatown Community Play Day, organized by neighborhood groups and civic leaders. Events included baseball, handball and running races, and Chinese Boy Scout Troop 150 performed. A baby contest judged infants on health, friendliness, clothing and lung power.
Source: Wikipedia
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