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NYC Parks Historical Markers
The purpose of this NYC Parks & Recreation program is to place historical identification markers which describe the history of the site, park improvements, and the biography of the person for whom the park is named.
These historical signs also offer virtual and physical context to parks, playgrounds, monuments, and landmarks across New York City.
What was here before?
This site was once part of Tunis Johnson's (1838-1912) estate. He was one of the largest landowners in Kings County and the grandson of the third Mayor of Brooklyn, General Jeremiah Johnson (1766-1852).
How did this . . . — — Map (db m253916) HM
This playground honors Seth Low (1860-1916), former president of Columbia University (1890-1901)now Columbia Universityand mayor of New York (1901-1903). Low was born in Brooklyn and educated at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Columbia . . . — — Map (db m265233) HM
What was here before?
Bensonhurst was once a rural section of the Dutch colonial town of New Utrecht. In the 1880s, land developer James Lynch bought land from the Benson family, after whom the neighborhood is named, and converted into an . . . — — Map (db m265232) HM
This triangle, located at the intersection of Avenue U, Veterans Avenue, and 71st Street, is named for Bergen Beach resident and Vietnam War veteran Private First Class Cosmo Leonard Barone.
Before the arrival of European settlers in the . . . — — Map (db m283577) HM
Bergen Beach Playground is built on fill that joined the ancient island of Winnipague to the mainland in 1918. Abounding in game and fish, the island was used seasonally by the Canarsie, a Leni-Lenape tribe of the Algonquian peoples that . . . — — Map (db m283578) HM
This triangle is named in honor of Reverend Patrick Joseph Kenny (1908-1986), who founded St. Bernards, a local church in Bergen Beach. Father Kenny worked tirelessly for his parishioners and was always available in times of need.
Born in . . . — — Map (db m283574) HM
What was here before?
The Board of Estimate (a now defunct municipal body) first acquired this property in 1944 as part of the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). Built under the direction of Triborough Bridge and Tunnel . . . — — Map (db m183118) HM
Trinity Park, on Gold Street between Sands and Nassau in downtown Brooklyn, is named in honor of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity also known as the Trinitarian Sisters. Under the auspices of the Catholic Settlement Association . . . — — Map (db m241391) HM
Babi Yar, a ravine on the northern edge of Kiev in the Ukraine is the site of a mass grave of more than 100,000 victims, mostly Jews, who were killed by German S.S. squads between 1941 - 1943.
This park is dedicated to the victims of the . . . — — Map (db m254133) HM WM
What was here before?
This was once the site of the Manhattan Beach Hotel and Land Company owned by Austin Corbin (1827-1896). The high-end resort attracted upper-class clientele to the area until prohibition made gambling illegal, and the . . . — — Map (db m254131) HM
Located in the southernmost portion of Brooklyn Heights, this playground is named after Adam "MCA" Yauch (1964-2012), a founding member of the 1980's punk/hip hop band The Beastie Boys.
This property was acquired by the City in 1944 as part . . . — — Map (db m241427) HM
This granite and limestone memorial in Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza is dedicated to the more than 300,000 "heroic men and women of the borough of Brooklyn" who served in World War II. Inside are displayed approximately 11,500 names of Brooklyn service . . . — — Map (db m253841) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m253869) HM
What was here before?
Once known as Ihpetonga, Algonquin for the high sandy banks, this area was inhabited by the Marechkawieck until around 1637 when the land was conveyed to the Dutch settlers who arrived here a few years earlier. . . . — — Map (db m286242) HM
The Brownsville Recreation Center takes its name from the neighborhood that it serves. Brownsville, bounded by Eastern Parkway, Van Sinderen Avenue to the east, Linden Boulevard to the south, and Rockaway Parkway to the west, was first developed . . . — — Map (db m239503) HM
William Howard (1725-1777) owned the Rising Sun Tavern, also known as the Howard Halfway House because of its location between Brooklyn Village and the town of Jamaica at the intersection of the Bedford and Jamaica Turnpikes (now the corner of . . . — — Map (db m242952) HM
William Howard (1725-1777) owned the Rising Sun Tavern, also known as the Howard Halfway House because of its location between Brooklyn Village and the town of Jamaica at the intersection of the Bedford and Jamaica Turnpikes (now the corner of . . . — — Map (db m242953) HM
This playground honors the Van Dyke family, who were among the earliest Dutch settlers of 17th century Brooklyn. Successive generations of the Van Dyck (the original Dutch spelling) family produced magistrates, judges, and landowners who held . . . — — Map (db m242954) HM
Beattie Square is named in memory of Joseph S. Beattie, who lived at 247 Schenectady Avenue in Brooklyn. Beattie served as a private in Company G of the 305th Infantry in the United States Army in World War I and reportedly died from wounds in . . . — — Map (db m254121) HM
This park is named to honor Thomas Boyland (1942-1982), a charismatic and fiercely independent State Assemblyman from Brownsville who dedicated his life to public service. Boyland was born in Memphis, Tennessee, one of thirteen children. He . . . — — Map (db m242925) HM
This small sitting space takes its name from the adjacent Linden Boulevard which in turn takes its name from the American linden trees (Tilia americana) that distinguished its perimeter. The land for the park was mapped as a public space . . . — — Map (db m265172) HM
This ballfield was named in honor of firefighter and lifeguard Louis Valentino Jr. (1958-1996) under a local law introduced by Councilmember Stephen DiBrenza and signed by Mayor Giuliani on June 25, 1996. Beginning with his early years in Red . . . — — Map (db m138273) HM
For well over 100 years, Brighton Beach and adjacent Coney Island were world-renowned as "America's Playground." At the peach of its popularity, there were three amusement parks, several vast seaside hotels, and countless smaller entertainment . . . — — Map (db m255731) HM
Coney Island Creek is a tidal creek, a 1.5-mile-long estuary that is fed freshwater from the storm drains of south Brooklyn. The creek connected Gravesend Bay to Sheepshead Bay until 1904, when illegal landfill turned Coney Island into a peninsula. . . . — — Map (db m255764) HM
Egrets, both Snowy and Great (left), are probably the most recognizable birds on Coney Island Creek. These beautiful native birds and feed along the shoreline and in the shallows, stirring up mud with their feet to find fish and crabs. A century . . . — — Map (db m255760) HM
Coney Island Creek provides seasonal habitat for many sport fish, including bluefish, striped bass, flounder, and fluke, as well as schools of baitfish. As water quality has improved, the creek has attracted an abundance of species not seen for . . . — — Map (db m255755) HM
How did this site become a park?
In 1934 NYC Parks acquired the first portion of this property and the park opened in 1935. The park expanded in 1937 and was known as Coney Island Lots. In 1951 the park was renamed for Dr. Leon S. Kaiser . . . — — Map (db m255750) HM
The mouth of Coney Island Creek is littered with shipwrecks, consisting mostly of derelict barges and tugboats hauled in for landfill for salvage during the 1960s. Older ships and boats lie buried beneath landfill at Calvert Vaux Park on the north . . . — — Map (db m255751) HM
Before development began in the 1820s, Coney Island was a desolate barrier island bordering a vast salt marsh that stretched north to what is now 86th Street. Coney Island Creek flowed through this thousand-acre wetland consisting mostly of a marsh . . . — — Map (db m255763) HM
This parkland, located on Surf Avenue and 10th Street, is named for the
Cyclone roller coaster, one of Coney Island's most famous attractions.
Covering 2,640 feet of track in a minute and fifty seconds, the Cyclone
carries 24 passengers and . . . — — Map (db m182920) HM
Partially submerged in Coney Island Creek, just offshore from Calvert Vaux Park, lies a resting submarine. the Quarter I was built and launched on Coney Island Creek in 1971 by Jerry Bianco, a Brooklyn Navy Yard welder who had no previous . . . — — Map (db m255754) HM
What was here before?
Jackie Robinson Playground is located on the former site of Ebbets Field, home to the Brooklyn Dodgers before it closed in 1957 after the team moved to Los Angeles. the Dodgers joined the National League in 1890 as the . . . — — Map (db m254140) HM
Jackie Robinson Playground is located on the former site of Ebbets Field, home to the Brooklyn Dodgers before it closed in 1957 after the team moved to Los Angeles. The City acquired the site when I.S. 320 was built in 1964, and the playground . . . — — Map (db m307454) HM
This paved, circular terrace is named after Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005), educator, social rights advocates and celebrated politician known for her strong moral character. As the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. . . . — — Map (db m183121) HM
What was here before?
This site was once a forested area that was chartered in 1661 by Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherland. The name Bushwick comes from the Dutch word "boswijck," meaning "refuge in the woods" or "heavy . . . — — Map (db m242921) HM
Clumber Corner is located in Brooklyn Heights at Washington and Prospect Streets. The urbanization of Brooklyn Heights began in 1814 when the neighborhood received an important boost from Robert Fulton's steam ferry, which allowed workers to . . . — — Map (db m241387) HM
This park is named for Hugh McLaughlin, Jr. (1823-1904), a local civic leader with tremendous influence in Brooklyn politics and in the religious life of his community. He was the youngest of ten children born to Irish immigrants who arrived in . . . — — Map (db m254182) HM
This playground is named for Harry Maze (1902-1971), a lawyer and Brooklyn politician who served the 23rd City Council district from 1966-1969.
During his tenure as a City Council member, Maze sponsored a bill to build a tunnel from the base . . . — — Map (db m265175) HM
This East Flatbush park, bounded by Foster Avenue, Albany Avenue, Farragut Road and East 40th Street, is named for Paerdegat Basin, a 1.25-mile-long channel that empties into Jamaica Bay in nearby Bergen Beach. Paerdegat Basin, named for a Dutch . . . — — Map (db m265187) HM
Built circa 1652, the original portion of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museums is the oldest structure in New York City and a National Historic Landmark. It's history exemplifies the diversity of Brooklyn's colonial farms, where Dutch-American . . . — — Map (db m265173) HM
About the House
Built circa 1652, the original portion of the Wyckoff House, operated as the Wyckoff House Museum, is the oldest structure in New York State. The Wyckoff House typifies the vernacular farmhouse architecture of the . . . — — Map (db m265174) HM
Enslaved and free Africans performed much of the heavy labor to create New York's infrastructure, building roads, docks, and buildings of the early city. They assisted early craftsmen and manufacturers, and many became skilled artisans . . . — — Map (db m265011) HM
What was here before?
This site was formerly occupied by several frame homes, which were razed to construct this playground.
How did this site become a playground?
The City acquired the land for the playground over a 53-year . . . — — Map (db m265002) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m265004) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m265005) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m265006) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m265020) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m265021) HM
The West African word and symbol "Sankofa" translates to "it is not taboo to go back and learn from the past." The symbol depicts a mythical bird that flies into the future while keeping its beak turned toward the past. Sankofa was chosen because . . . — — Map (db m265007) HM
Free and enslaved people of African descent buried their dead here, as substantiated through historical documents and Archaeological surveys completed in 2018. As early as 1680, the site was set aside by settlers as public space and contained a . . . — — Map (db m265018) HM
These basketball courts were named in 2023 for Taurean Spears (1983-2019), who was a pillar of the community community and mentored youth in the area.
A Brooklyn native, Spears attended the nearby St. Cecilia School and John Ericsson JHS . . . — — Map (db m265112) HM
These basketball courts were named in 2023 for Taurean Spears (1983-2019), who was a pillar of the community community and mentored youth in the area.
A Brooklyn native, Spears attended the nearby St. Cecilia School and John Ericsson JHS . . . — — Map (db m265115) HM
This playground and the adjoining street are named for Coenradt Ten Eyck (1617-1686), a settler in the New Amsterdam colony. He was born in 1617 in Moers, Germany, to Wilhelm Ten Eyck (c. 1590-c. 1645) and Michel Puitzen (1592-c. 1623). He . . . — — Map (db m254116) HM
What was here before?
This site was once occupied by a one-story commercial building, but by the 1980s the lot was vacant. The site is three blocks west of the Ditmas Park Historic District, which contains many grand homes built at the turn . . . — — Map (db m254176) HM
What was here before?
Long inhabited by the Canarsee, this lowland areathe outwash plain of the glacial moraine that forms Long Islandproved excellent for a variety of farm crops. Though the first title to the land was registered to Jacob . . . — — Map (db m265189) HM
This triangle honors Firefighter Gregory T. Saucedo (1969-2001) who lived his entire life in this neighborhood, served 11 years in the Fire Department, and died while working to help people escape the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. . . . — — Map (db m283572) HM
This park is named for Betty Carter (1929-1998), a legendary African American jazz artist who was a prominent resident of Fort Greene.
The property, located opposite the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), once was home to small-scale . . . — — Map (db m242877) HM
What was here before?
The property was once home to small-scale residential and commercial buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that fell into disrepair and abandonment by the late 1970s. In the early 1980s the City took . . . — — Map (db m242882) HM
Commodore Barry Park is located in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. The park was acquired by the Village of Brooklyn in 1836 and for more than a century bore the forthright name "City Park." It is the oldest park in the borough and was . . . — — Map (db m309932) HM
This park is named for Dr. Theodore Ludyard Curler (1822-1909) a prominent local minister born in Aura, New York. Educated by his mother, Cuyler graduated from Princeton College in 1841 and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1846. He served as a . . . — — Map (db m242722) HM
Famed landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux may have introduced these two cannon into Fort Greene Park in the 1870's as a part of the saluting battery included in their original design for the park. The "RD" markings . . . — — Map (db m239502) HM
Ronald R. Edmonds (1935-1983) was an African American educational expert known for his commitment to improving public schools. NYC Parks and the Board of Education (now the NYC Department of Education) opening the jointly operated JHS 294 . . . — — Map (db m181674) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m241401) HM
Located south of Willoughby Avenue between Adelphi Street and Clermont Avenue in Brooklyn, this playground is named for Albert Lysander Parham (1914-1990). Mr. Parham generously left NYC Parks $263,700 to fund the extensive renovations made here . . . — — Map (db m241406) HM
Located south of Willoughby Avenue between Adelphi Street and Clermont Avenue in Brooklyn, this playground is named for Albert Lysander Parham (1914-1990). Mr. Parham generously left NYC Parks $263,700 to fund the extensive renovations made here . . . — — Map (db m241405) HM
This impressive monument, consisting of a 100-foot-wide granite staircase and a central Doric column 149 feet in height, was designed by renowned architect Stanford White (1853-1906). The monument marks the site of a crypt for more than 11,500 . . . — — Map (db m239490) HM
Who is this monument dedicated to?
This impressive monument, consisting of a 100-foot-wide granite staircase and a central Doric column 149 feet in height, was designed by renowned architect Stanford White (1853-1906) and marks the site of a . . . — — Map (db m239495) HM
Who is this monument dedicated to?
This plaque honors the 126 Hispanic soldiers who died in Brooklyn on prison ships during the American Revolution.
Over 11,500 men and women died of overcrowding, contaminated water, starvation, and . . . — — Map (db m310542) HM
Established and maintained by community volunteers through GreenThumb a program of N.Y.C. Parks & Recreation
Protected as a permanent public garden in 1999 by The Trust for Public Land a nonprofit organization protecting land for . . . — — Map (db m241403) HM
How did this site become a dog run?
While Shore Road Park has several lawns that have been historically used for off-leash dog walking, the closest formal dog run was well over a mile away. Located within view of the Verrazzano Bridge, this . . . — — Map (db m265156) HM
This park honors John J. Carty (1909-1970), a native of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who lived his life only five blocks away and dedicated himself to New York City government for 32 years.
Born in Bay Ridge, Carty graduated from St. Francis College in . . . — — Map (db m108742) HM
This popular field, within Shore Road Park near 95th Street in southwest Brooklyn, is named in memory of Rudy Piccirillo (1932-1980), founder of the Knute Rockne Football Association and legendary coach to generations of local kids from the . . . — — Map (db m265157) HM
In the summer of 1776, an invasion force of 32,000 troops aboard a British naval fleet of 400 ships was anchored off Staten Island, poised for an attack on New York City. On August 22 British commander General Howe launched an invasion with 15,000 . . . — — Map (db m271292) HM
What was here before?
The Coney Island Creek that runs through the park was once home to small ports and shipyards, and in the early 20th century was reputedly a rumrunner's Haven. Today the hulls of nearly two dozen Shipwrecks can . . . — — Map (db m271271) HM
This triangle honors Private First Class Armond Cutinella, who died in the Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944-January 25, 1945), a conclusive battle that took place toward the end of World War II. A local hero within his Gravesend community, . . . — — Map (db m265201) HM
Coney Island Creek provides seasonal habitat for many sport fish, including bluefish, striped bass, flounder, and bunker, as well as schools of baitfish. As water quality has improved, the Creek has attracted an abundance of species not seen for . . . — — Map (db m271289) HM
This square honors Archie C. Ketchum (1893-1920), a local Brooklyn native who worked in real estate with his father, volunteered for World War I, and served on the Board of Aldermen.
Ketchum was raised on Kings Highway and West Eighth . . . — — Map (db m265229) HM
What was here before?
Prior to the arrival of European settlers,
this area was inhabited by the Canarsee
tribe. Gravesend was established in 1645,
when Dutch Governor Willem Kieft granted
land to wealthy English widow Lady
Deborah . . . — — Map (db m184768) HM
This playground takes its name from the adjacent avenue, once called Gravesend after the historic town that existed here. In 1933, the City changed the street name to honor John R. McDonald (1871-1932), who served as chief clerk at Brooklyn . . . — — Map (db m182813) HM
What was here before?
This garden was once the site of a house belonging to the Stillwell family, in what was once a very rural area. Having arrived in the 1600's, the Stillwells are considered one of Kings County's founding families. The . . . — — Map (db m182633) HM
What was here before?
From 1886 to 1910, this was the site of the Gravesend Racetrack
built by the Brooklyn Jockey Club. The facility covered an area
that extended from McDonald Avenue (then Gravesend Avenue)
to Ocean Parkway, and from . . . — — Map (db m182654) HM
Before settlement in the 1820s, Coney Island was a barrier island composed of tall, stable sand dunes, some so large that they were used as navigational aids by mariners approaching New York Harbor. The dunes, shaped by wind and tides and covered . . . — — Map (db m271291) HM
Father Joseph Studzinski was born on February 12, 1887 in the province of Silesia, a coal-mining region in present day Poland near the German border. Ordained in 1911, Father Studzinski immigrated to the United States one year later.
Father . . . — — Map (db m265104) HM
What was here before?
This was once the territory of the Keskachauge, a subtribe of the Canarsie who were part of the Lenape. They farmed and fished the area until the arrival of the Dutch.
When European mariners arrived here in the . . . — — Map (db m265063) HM
This entry garden, located within McGolrick Park at the corner of Nassau and Russell Streets, commemorates Brooklyn Park Supervisor Paul Clinton (1960-2007).
Paul Anderson Clinton was born on November 27, 1960 in Manchester, England. His . . . — — Map (db m265106) HM
WNYC Transmitter Park is located on the site of the former AM-radio transmission towers for public radio station WNYC. Built in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, where Greenpoint Avenue ends at West Street by the East River shoreline, the site . . . — — Map (db m254898) HM
This square honors Colonel Donald Gilbert Cook (1934-1967) who served with the Marine Corps in Vietnam and died there while being held as a prisoner of War. Colonel Cook graduated from St. Francis Xavier High School where he excelled at football, . . . — — Map (db m126850) HM
This playground in East Flatbush owes its name to Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886), lawyer, governor, and candidate for president. Tilden was born on February 9, 1814 in New Lebanon, New York. He studied at both Yale College and the University of . . . — — Map (db m265178) HM
This playground in East Flatbush owes its name to Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886), lawyer, governor, and candidate for president. Tilden was born on February 9, 1814 in New Lebanon, New York. He studied at both Yale College and the University of . . . — — Map (db m265182) HM
These Cherry trees were planted in June 1998
by
The Holocaust Memorial Committee
A living memorial to
Chiune Sugihara
In 1940, during the darkest hours of Lithuanian Jewrey, one man came forth risking his life and career to save . . . — — Map (db m254229) HM WM
What was here before?
Manhattan Beach was the site of a self-contained summer resort on 500 acres of salt marsh built in 1876 by real estate developer and railroad tycoon Austin Corbin (1827-1896). Corbin opened the opulent Manhattan Beach . . . — — Map (db m255728) HM
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