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Jamaica Playground

Union Hall St., 160 St. bet. 110 Ave. and 109 Ave.

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 playground owes its name to the neighborhood in which it resides. Jamaica is the largest and most densely populated community in central Queens.

Its name derives from the area’s beavers (or Jameco in Lenape) who lived along the shores of Jamaica Bay. In 1655, the first English settlers arrived in Jamaica from Massachusetts and eastern Long Island. Within a year, they secured a land grant from the Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant, who named the area Rustdorp (rest-town). Rustdorp soon became the seat of Queens County. On September 8, 1664, the Dutch surrendered their New Netherland holdings to the English.

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