George Hecht Viewing Gardens

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Stuyvesant Street is the only street in Manhattan that is truly going east-west, which is why there is a big compass in the middle of this park. George Hecht was an inventor, manufacturing executive and a patron of a number of city organizations, including the New York Zoological Society, Central Park Conservancy, the Horticultural Society of NY, and WNET/Channel 13. The garden is named after him because he paid for it - a terrible precedent.
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Coordinates:   40°43'47"N   73°59'21"W
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