Located between East 15th and East 17th Streets, this four-acre square has been the centerpiece of the surrounding neighborhood since its completion. Once a part of the former 120-acre farm and estate of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherlands, the site was sold by the Stuyvesant family to the City of New York for use as a public park in 1836. By the time the park was opened to the public in 1850, it featured a cast iron fence (1847) and two central fountains (1848), which were replaced by smaller fountains in 1884. The current passive park is a result of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’ 1930s campaign to rehabilitate New York’s public parks, and was redesigned by Gilmore Clarke in 1935.

Stuyvesant Square Park

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