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1871 Kellogg and Pilat Map of Tompkins Square Park, New York City
ImprovementsTompkinsPark-kellogg-1871Through the long summer day its bare stretching distance of sand is a glaring Sahara: but when the sun has gone behind the high houses of Avenue A, the great square is the attractive centre of the whole neighborhood—a reservoir of cool air, calling laborers out of their tenement homes as soon as they have eaten supper...Tompkins Square this evening presents everyday life; not church or picnic, with better coat and brighter ribbon, but home turned out on exhibition, bareheaded and barefooted. Stout arms that have become sinewy through the toil of the machine-shop and the wash-tub are brawny, bare to the elbow. Human life is uncovered here, and takes its last draught of air before it retires to hired chambers, and throwing itself on welcome beds, too often in stifling inside bedrooms, tired nature closed the eyelids until another day.Over the years Tompkins Square Park, that has over the years served a place to voice dissent, has been renovated and transformed several times. Today the park is equipped with two playgrounds, a handball court, chess tables, dog run and a basketball court, and is one of the New York City's popular parks. This plan was created by M. A. Kellogg and I. A. Pilat for the First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year Ending May 1, 1871. Maps of Tompkins Square Park are exceptionally scarce, making this a rare find and an important addition to any serious collection focusing on New York City.
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