Baruch Playground

By the late nineteenth century, New York City's populace had achieved 1.4 million, and was developing quickly. New outsiders were constrained into congested apartment regions where packing debilitated their wellbeing and welfare. Plagues of cholera and typhoid seethed through these downtown ghettos in the 1890s, owing mostly to the absence of fundamental sanitation offices, for example, toilets and showers. When the new century rolled over, these packed neighborhoods arrived at the midpoint of one bath for each 79 families, while on a few hinders the extent was a stunning one bath for each 440 families.

This large, unadorned park pays tribute to two generations of New Yorkers whose work, directly and indirectly, helped bring health and recreation amenities to the masses.