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Times   Sunday   July 3, 1938

Lower East Side Its Place in the Sun 

will be abundant shade trees and a long line of benches overlooking the water.

The large drawing, prepared by John MacGilchrist of the designing staff of the New York City Park Department, shows the new park as it will look perhaps two years hence. North from Grand Street-the broad avenue two blocks south of the Williamsburg Bridge-work is now going forward, with prospect of completion next year.
The section below Grand Street will be started at about the time the upper section is completed. 

Much of the land utilized was literally carved out of the East River. A new bulkhead line, beyond the old pierhead line, was established, established, and a massive concrete seawall was laid along the new boundary. The old, dilapidated piers were demolished and ground was filled in around and beneath them.

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The new park will serve and area extending back a mile to the Bowery, a district with a long tradition of squalor and congestion, which, after half a century of darkness, is now emerging into its place in the sun.

Below--Beside the Grand Street Settlement House there is no open space but the street. But the new park will bring these children within two or three minutes walk of a far more varied and more spacious playground.

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