Tompkins Square Park (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York
Tompkins Square Park is named for Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President of the United States under President James Monroe and the Governor of New York from 1807 until 1817. The park was landscaped by 1850 and has been a public park since the late 1870s.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompkins_Square_Park
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Coordinates:   40°43'35"N   73°58'54"W

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  • Berlin has the Volkspark in Friederichain, Manhattan has Tompkins Square Park. Its the people's park, I've also heard it refered to as Punk Park, because of some of its more colorful locals. Its become a family friendly park, but still has a few homeless and drug/alcohol addicted residents.
  • The "sprinkler park" on the north side, where children cool off during the summer, contains a monument to the 1904 wreck of the General Slocum when over a thousand people, mostly German women and children on a church outing, died. This effectively destroyed the German community in the area, known then as "Little Germany". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_General_Slocum
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