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  1. Seward Park (Manhattan) /  40.71472°N 73.98944°W  / 40.71472; -73.98944. Seward Park is a public park and playground in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Located north of East Broadway and east of Essex Street, it is 3.046 acres (12,330 m 2) in size and is the first municipally built playground in the United ...

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  2. Born in Florida, New York, William Henry Seward (1801-1872) served as governor of New York for one term starting in 1839, and as a United States Senator from 1849 to 1861. He was then appointed by President Lincoln as Secretary of State, a position he also held under President Andrew Johnson. Seward, a staunch abolitionist successfully ...

  3. Seward Park. Directions via Google Maps. Named for the New York statesman famous for orchestrating the purchase of Alaska in 1867, Seward Park, one of the largest parks on the Lower East Side, has the distinction of being home to the first permanent, municipally-built playground in the nation. Discover the history of Seward Park.

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  4. Seward Park - Beavers in New York City. This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. In the early 17th century, the Dutch East India Company sent navigator Henry Hudson westward to discover the Northwest Passage to the Orient. Instead, he landed in New York, finding natives dressed in deerskin ...

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  6. Seward Park is a wonderful patch of greenery on the edge of Chinatown and is a real family park in that I saw parents and grandparents chasing after their children and the kids having a wonderful time in the playgrounds and splashing in the water spouts coming out of the ground.

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  7. Department of Parks, Press Release, November 26, 1940 Department of Parks, Press Release, June 5, 1941 NYC Parks - Seward Park New York City Parks Department New Deal Projects 1934-43 Department of Parks, Press Release, April 1, 1935. Site originally submitted by Frank da Cruz on December 5, 2016.

  8. Nov 24, 2022 · (Library of Congress) Seward Park and the new library (NYPL) Lawn-tennis and volley-ball games as played by girls in the William H. Seward Park, 1905 clipping (Courtesy New York Public Library) Just a’swingin’ in Seward Park, between 1910 and ca. 1915, Library of Congress between 1910 and ca. 1915, Library of Congress Seward Park with the ...

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