This park stretches the entire length of the block along the north side of Houston Street and continues across 1st Ave. to end in the First Park Greenstreet Triangle. Only the east end of the park has been recently rehabilitated to include a children's playground with a wading pool, handball courts and a busy plaza next to the subway entrance which hosts a food kiosk with outdoor seating.

Above: the coffee house in the plaza (top) and the children's playground.

Above: handball court.

As the park stretches west, a colonade of trees continues into a fenced-off grassy area that presently is unoccupied.

Above: View west toward the unused part of the park.

Right: The abandoned western end of the park still has architectural artifacts, leftover from when a building collapsed, visible amid the weeds.

If you have information or pictures that you would like to contribute of this greenspace, or of another garden or park in the East Village, please contact Ellen at EVPC.