Golden Swan Garden

Golden Swan Garden (HM2JYM)

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N 40° 43.895', W 74° 0.047'

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and a playground was opened to the public here on October 14, 1935. The property was officially assigned to Parks by the Board of Estimate on August 27, 1953, and it is one of several small parks in the area that line Sixth Avenue - including the adjacent West 4th Street Courts, Minetta Green, Minetta Square, Minetta Lane Playground, Churchill Square and Charlton Plaza. Continuing in the innovative traditions of the neighborhood, the site was used as a recycling center in the 1980s. The Village Green Recycling Team held a champagne reception here on January 6, 1984 to kick off a program of collecting newspapers, glass, aluminum, and tin for recycling every Saturday. The recycling program ended with the advent of large-scale recycling by the Department of Sanitation in the 1900s.
In 1999, Mayor Giuliani contributed $80,000 for a Requirements Contract to begin to turn this formerly bedraggled open patch of asphalt and concrete into a garden. Council Member Christine Quinn allocated $158,000 in additional capital funding to complete the renovation of the garden, including the installation of new granite curbs, an ornamental steel fence, a toolshed and a jardinière urn. Completed in winter of 2000, the garden also features bluestone and asphalt block paths, and a number of trees such as the Japanese Dogwood (Cornus kousa), Flowering dogwood (Coirnua florida), Serbian spruce (Picea omorika), Japanese maple (Acer japonica), Dawn redwood (Metasequora glyptostroboides), and Saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana).
City of New York Parts and Recreation
Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor
Adrian Benepe, Commissioner
June 2001
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HM NumberHM2JYM
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Year Placed2001
Placed ByCity of New York Parts and Recreation
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Date Added Monday, August 26th, 2019 at 5:03pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 584376 N 4509441
Decimal Degrees40.73158333, -74.00078333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 43.895', W 74° 0.047'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 43' 53.7" N, 74° 0' 2.82" W
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