Washington Square Park
![Park/Recreation Area: Green space that offers a place to relax and play outdoors. May include sports fields, picnicking, running paths, canoe rental, or workout/play equipment, along with diverse vegetation and a pond, creek or other water feature. Park/Recreation Area](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_94.gif)
![Loc de cultură: Important contributors to the community's sense of place and built environment. Historical, art, music, legendary, non-institutional resources, monuments, organizations and places, even temporary projects may be included. Loc de cultură](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/cultural.gif)
![Public Space/Square: A community gathering place, often car-free, that may have benches, fountain, events, etc., with an inclusive, accessible character. It can be a public space located in a square, garden or park, or even indoors. Public Space/Square](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/category_pictures_95.gif)
![Art Spot: Public art that may include ecologically-oriented artworks, earthworks, monuments, other permanent installations or temporary performance art. May be resources for making eco-art or schools related to restorative or environmental art. Art Spot](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/art_spot.gif)
![Act cultural: Cultural presentations before an audience, usually in a theatrical setting including plays, dance, concerts, etc. May include street theater, puppeteers, traditional theater, mixed media, etc. Act cultural](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/cultural_performance.gif)
![Local Music: A place to listen to and play music. May include locally important music, classical, folk, participatory, ethnic, improvisation or jazz, as interpreted locally. Local Music](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/local_music.gif)
![Lively Spot: Site of social gatherings and fun cultural activities indoors or out. May include a streetscape, special park, campus, hanging out spot or meeting place. Lively Spot](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/lively_spot.gif)
![Diverse Neighborhood: A part of the community where many different backgrounds, cultures and beliefs are represented. Diverse Neighborhood](https://www.opengreenmap.org/sites/default/files/taxonomy_image/diverse_neighborhood.gif)
Rezumat
THEN: The first person to have cleared the land beneath the trees, playgrounds, and statues of the present-day park was Big Manuel, one of the slaves brought to the Dutch colony of New Netherlands in 1625. After nineteen years, he was freed to farm near this then-swampy ground. At the end of the eighteenth century, the land was used as a potter's field; perhaps as many as twenty-two thousand bodies, many dead from yellow fever, lie beneath the present-day park.
NOW:
Since the buses were banned, their noise has become replaced by live musicians and the thud of feet as students race to classes at New York University.
Source: Six Heritage Tours of the Lower East Side by Ruth Limmer in collaboration with NYC's Lower East Side Tenement Museum
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