Washington Square Park

Year

1800

Type

landscape

Once a potter's field and public execution ground, this 9.75-acre park at the foot of Fifth Avenue became the symbolic center of Greenwich Village and New York University. The marble Washington Arch by Stanford White frames the view north a …

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