John J. Carty Park (New York City)

John Carty Park was built beneath the connecting ramp between the Verrazano Bridge and the Belt Pakway in 1964 and later named for a local 32-year civil servant who died in 1970. Not much of a park, really, but there was playground space for kids, and it became a default playground for me in the late 60s. The basketball court figured in a scene in 1978's Saturday Night Fever.

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