Stuyvesant Square Park | green space, green area

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Stuyvesant Square is a park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Second Avenue divides the park into two halves, east and west, and each half is surrounded by the original cast-iron fence. Stuyvesant Square Park, like many other city parks, was extensively rehabilitated in a more populist manner during the 1930s, when the 19th-century plan was modified by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses' landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke, with the addition of comfort stations, playgrounds and other built amenities. The park reopened in 1937; the 1980s saw restorations of the two 1884 fountains, the preservation of the cast-iron fence, and relaying the original bluestone sidewalks in two ellipses, with renovated lawns, shrubs and flower beds. There are also statues of Peter Stuyvesant and composer Antonin Dvořák.