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East Flatbush Children’s Playground
This playground is named for the East Flatbush community, and for the Dutch colonial settlement of Flatbush, founded in 1652 a...

East Fourth Street Community Garden
The dedicated local residents of the East Fourth Street Garden Association have tended this site, formerly known as the Windso...

Eastern Parkway
Eastern Parkway follows the course of Jamaica Pass, a low area or valley resting between terminal moraines left here by the Wi...

Edvard Grieg
This bronze bust of Norwegian composer Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843–1907) by sculptor Sigvald Asbjornsen (1867-1954) was d...

El-Shabazz Playground
El-Shabazz Playground is named for the civil rights leader El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (1925-1965), also known as Malcolm X. ...

Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
This Bedford-Stuyvesant playground is named after First Lady and United Nations Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).  ...

Elijah Stroud Playground
This playground and the adjacent school are named for Elijah J. Stroud (1923-1972), a New York Police Officer who was killed i...

Elizabeth Stroud Playground
What was here before? Once known as Bedford Corners and Stuyvesant Heights, the Dutch farmed this area during the 17th and ...

Elton Playground
Despite the trains running overhead, Elton Playground is a quiet neighborhood park with simple but well-laid-out recreational ...

Ennis Playground
What was here before? Maps of Gowanus from as early as 1906 show a mixture of residential lots alongside heavy industry, ch...

Epiphany Park
What was here before?Both Epiphany Church and Epiphany Park are located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, named fo...

Ericsson Playground
Located at the intersection of Manhattan Avenue and Leonard Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint, this large play...

Ethan Allen Park
Bounded by Cozine Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Wortman Avenue, and Vermont Street, this playground is named for Ethan Allen (173...

Eugenio Maria De Hostos Playground
This playground is named for Eugenio Maria De Hostos (1839-1903), the 19th century Puerto Rican revolutionary, reformer, and e...

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