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During 1960, a portion of the site of the Collect Pond area was given to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation for conversion into a park. Originally, the park was named "Civil Court Park" due to its proximity to the surrounding courthouse buildings. However, the park was renamed "Collect Pond Park", its current name, to represent its history more accurately. During the 1832 cholera outbreak in New YOrk, Chase Manhattan Company used Collect Pond Park as a well site after it has been filled with garbage.

The park is located on the block bordered by Lafayette Street, Leonard Street, Centre Street, and White Street. The park was closed for a renovation in 2012, being entirely reconstructed. The newly re-built park includes a pond evocative of the former Collect Pond.

It is still possible to ascertain the rough boundaries of the Collect Pond and original topography in the elevations of the streets in the area, with the lowest elevation being Centre Street which runs in the approximate center of the former pond.

The park was used as a filming location for the Netflix original series, "Inventing Anna", as Vivian questions Anna's lawyer.

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