Mulberry Bend Park

Mulberry Bend Park

parks, buildings, Columbus Park, Five Points, Lower East Side

Mulberry Bend Park was one of Riis' greatest achievements as a social reformer. Mulberry Bend was originally a poor Italian neighborhood. After the passage of the Small Parks Act in 1887, plans for the demolition of Mulberry Bend were filed a year later. The Mulberry Bend Park was opened to the public on June 15, 1897, and Riis received cheers from five thousand people, most of whom were children. Today, the park is not as big as it used to be due to asphalted playgrounds for children and due to the park being rimmed by the United States Court House, the New York Supreme Court Building, the State Office Building, and the Criminal Court Building (from "The Tenement House Problem; Including the Report of the New York State Tenement House Commission of 1900: Volume II", edited by Robert W. DeForest and Lawrence Veiller, Macmillan N.Y. 1903. Page 9.

Wurts Brothers (New York, NY)

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Community Service Society Photographs

circa 1900

Item Number: 1259
Photograph Number: 312
Box and Folder Number: 296: 35

Model

850 x 662