Columbus Park

The Columbus park, situated between Baxter & Mulberry St and Bayard & Worth St is worth visiting. Multicultural and full of Chinese people enjoying their freetime, playing music or exercising.

A quote from the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation:

“Columbus Park was planned in the 1880′s by Calvert Vaux, the famed co-designer of Central Park . Vaux saw it as an opportunity to bring new life and order into the depressed neighborhood. Jacob Riis remarked of the park that it is “little less than a revolution” to see the slum housing go down, while “in its place come trees and grass and flowers; for its dark hovels light and sunshine and air.” The park opened in the summer of 1897, with bench-lined curved walkways and an expansive, open grassy area.”

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