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Seen & Heard: Birthday party for Duane Park
DUANE PARK WILL HOST ITS OWN BDAY PARTY
The Friends of Duane Park is closing Duane Street, building a long community table for 150 guests, and hosting a fundraising dinner for the park on Sunday, Sept. 18, starting at 4p. The menu will be created by Restaurant Marc Forgione with beverages paired to match by Tribeca Wine Merchants and birthday cake from Duane Park Patisserie. Tickets are $225 until August 1, and $275 thereafter.
TWO LOCAL TEEN BANDS TEAM UP THIS WEEKEND
Tribecan Jagger Walk‘s fashion company Runaway New York is producing a concert that will feature young musicians and bands — two of which have Tribeca roots — with music that is for teens and by teens. The concert, called Nights, will be held on Saturday, July 16, in Industry City, Brooklyn. Doors open at 6p. The “micro” festival will feature Laundry Day and Quarters of Change, among others. A portion of the profits from the show will go towards Citymeals on Wheels. Get tickets here.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 10 CANDIDATE FORUM JUNE 29
The local Lower Manhattan Democratic Club Congressional District 10 Candidate Forum, originally scheduled for June 7, was postponed and will now be run across two dates on Zoom: June 29 and 30, from 7:30 to 9:30p.
NYLO FUNDRAISER HITS $9K
The fundraiser for Ukraine sponsored by the owners of NYLO and the trainers and clients who work at their studio raised $9k for Ukraine thanks to donations in lieu of class fees. A good effort by the neighborhood.
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Second oldest park? Aren’t Bowling Green and City Hall older?
And improvements to Battery Park are older.
See “The Oldest Parks : Online Historic Tour : NYC Parks“ https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/timeline/oldest-parks
There is a first for Duane Park. The website that James provides says: “Duane Street Park, at Duane and Hudson Streets, was also acquired in 1797. Trinity Church sold the triangle of land to the city for five dollars, on the condition that it be fenced and landscaped ‘as promotive of health and recreation.’ It was the first park purchased by the city specifically for that purpose.”
Read on in James’ link: Duane Street Park “was the first park purchased by the city specifically for that purpose.” And safe to say that what is now known as City Hall Park was not a park as we know it: “City Hall Park was a public commons… that was used for executions and the burial of paupers and slaves.”
And from the Friends of Duane Park’s history page: “Duane Park is the second oldest public park in New York City (trailing Bowling Green). It was set aside as public land by the city government of 1797, which bought it from the vestry of Trinity Church (Wall St.).”
Thanks Jane and James!