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Frank D. O'Connor Playground

Broadway and Woodside Ave. bet. 77 St. and 79 St.

Queens

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This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

What was here before?
This land was formerly part of the settlement of Middleburg, established in 1652 by English Puritans. Shortly thereafter the village was renamed Newtown. When Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant threatened their patent, the colonists approached the Algonquian-speaking Lenape, who agreed to share the surrounding territory. The settlers ultimately took ownership of the property, and the Lenape were displaced. Over the next two centuries, farmland gave way to residential and commercial development.

By the turn of the 20th century, this parcel was part of a larger landholding owned by Stuard Hirschman, a real estate investor and philanthropist. The tract remained undeveloped except for dirt paths for several decades.

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