Английская Википедия:Chelsea Park

Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox park Chelsea Park is a park in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, that dates back to 1910. The park has sports fields, basketball and handball courts, a children's playground and space for sitting. The surface is mostly tarmac or artificial turf, with pits for the plane trees and some plots with annual flower plantings. There is a statue to a World War I soldier, the "Doughboy Statue", erected in 1921. The process of approval, funding and clearing the tenements that occupied the site was protracted. The park has since been upgraded several times by the Works Progress Administration and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Location

Chelsea Park is located between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, and between West 27th and West 28th Streets in Manhattan.Шаблон:Sfn The park covers almost Шаблон:Convert.Шаблон:Sfn There is fencing around the park to contain the active play areas, with gates at various points. The soccer pitch is surrounded by taller fencing while the rest of the park is surrounded by shorter fences.Шаблон:Sfn

The area between West 26th and West 28th Streets and 9th and 10th Avenues is a superblock, comprising two normal-sized blocks. West 27th Drive is a driveway used only for service access, with the park occupying most of the block to the north of the drive.Шаблон:Sfn To the south along 26th Street are three 12-to-14-story brick towers run by the New York City Housing Authority in the southern part of the superblock, as well as a public school (PS 33 Chelsea Prep) and the Hudson Guild Settlement House.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn The annex to the Morgan General Mail Facility occupies the block directly to the north of the park.Шаблон:Sfn The Church of the Holy Apostles, built in 1848, is located on the east side of 9th Avenue across from the park. It is located within the Penn South housing complex.Шаблон:Sfn

Physical

Infrastructure

Chelsea Park has spaces for both passive and active recreation.Шаблон:Sfn It is one of the busier parks in the neighborhood.Шаблон:Sfn It contains baseball diamonds, basketball courts and six handball courts.Шаблон:Sfn The artificial turf sports field covers about one third of the area.Шаблон:Sfn The P.O. David Willis Basketball Court is named after the New York City Police Department officer David Willis (1964–95), who used to patrol the park.Шаблон:Sfn There are public washrooms at West 27th Street and 9th Avenue, open year-round.Шаблон:Sfn The park contains a District Health Center, a low-rise red brick building in the eastern part of the park.Шаблон:Sfn

Ecology

There are no artificial or natural ponds. As of 2008 there were 27 mature London plane trees (Platanus × acerifolia) with heights of Шаблон:Convert around the perimeter of the park, and another 28 similar trees scattered through the interior. Most of the trees are in pits, because most of the ground surface is impermeable. The beds of annual plants around the monument and the health center are the only vegetated and permeable areas of the park other than the tree pits.Шаблон:Sfn The northwest section of the park has less vegetation than the southeast section.Шаблон:Sfn

The six-story Morgan Mail Building along the northern perimeter is a high-collision site for birds, with collisions peaking in mid May.Шаблон:Sfn The first two stories of the building have featureless concrete walls, while the upper four stories are 75% covered with reflective glass panels installed over the concrete wall to give the appearance of windows.Шаблон:Sfn A study in the spring and autumn of 2005 and 2006 collected the corpses of many migratory birds that had collided with the windows of the six-story USPS building, deceived by the reflections of the greenery in the park.Шаблон:Sfn It seemed that the birds generally had adequate stores of fat (energy), and it was not clear whether they were stopping in Chelsea Park to replenish their energy or as a reaction to the inhospitable and unfamiliar city landscape.Шаблон:Sfn About 80% of collisions are fatal, with most collisions occurring during the day.Шаблон:Sfn Most are found along the southeast perimeter, where there are most trees, while relatively few are found along the playing field perimeter. This suggests that the reflections of trees in the glass panels are a major factor.Шаблон:Sfn

Doughboy Statue

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Sketch map. BB: Baseball diamond; HB: Handball; BSK: Basketball; GP: Gateposts; MO: Monument

The park is one of nine New York City parks with monuments to local heroes of World War I (1914–18). The Chelsea Park Memorial, also known as the Doughboy Statue, is a granite stele Шаблон:Convert tall fronted by a plinth supporting a bronze statue of an American soldier.Шаблон:Sfn ("Doughboy" is a slang term for an infantryman that was widely used in World War I.Шаблон:Sfn) The plinth bears the inscription: "To the Soldiers and Sailors of Chelsea World War 1914–1918".Шаблон:Sfn The monument is surrounded by cobblestone.Шаблон:Sfn It stands in front of the more recently built Health Center.Шаблон:Sfn

The memorial was designed by the architect Charles Rollinson Lamb (1860–1942). The statue was created by the French-born sculptor Philip Martiny (1858–1927) and cast by the Roman Bronze Works foundry of New York.Шаблон:Sfn The soldier holds a rifle and has a flag draped over his shoulders.Шаблон:Sfn He strikes a commanding pose, defying the enemy.Шаблон:Sfn The city's Art Commission, chaired by sculptor Robert Aitken, rejected Martiny's first submission in which the doughboy's pose was less dynamic.Шаблон:Sfn Martiny used the same model for the doughboy as he did for his next statue of a soldier, in Greenwich Village. The soldier's aggressive pose is exactly the same as in Martiny's poster for the propaganda film Under Four Flags (1918).Шаблон:Sfn

Gateposts

Also in front of the District Health Center there are two pairs of memorial gate posts that were commissioned by the Horatio Seymour Tammany Club and installed in 1926.Шаблон:Sfn They commemorate the former borough president Frank L Dowling, the municipal civic court leader Frank J. Goodwin and the New York State Democratic Committee member William L. Kavanagh.Шаблон:Sfn

History

Early years (1904–18)

The Chelsea Improvement Society proposed a playground for the park's current location in 1904 due to the paucity of parks along Ninth Avenue, with no parks on the street between DeWitt Clinton Park at 53rd Street and Hudson Park at Varick Street.Шаблон:Sfn At the time, P.S. 33 occupied an adjacent lot.Шаблон:Sfn Land had been set aside for a proposed Carnegie library to the east.Шаблон:Sfn The rest of the area was full of tenements.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn One reader wrote to The New York Times opposing the park and advocating another park site further north that would be located near a greater number of people.Шаблон:Sfn Another reader proposed a larger park.Шаблон:Sfn The legislature passed bills authorizing the park twice, but both times the mayor vetoed the bills as an "infringement of home rule".Шаблон:Sfn $2.23 million was set aside to acquire the park in summer 1905.Шаблон:Sfn

The city's parks department finally acquired the titles for all the required properties in 1906.Шаблон:Sfn At the time, the acquisition comprised approximately Шаблон:Convert.Шаблон:Sfn Demolitions continued at a slow pace: by July 1907, only two cellars had been cleared.Шаблон:Sfn Filling started on the excavated properties by the end of that year.Шаблон:Sfn A temporary playground was built in 1908.Шаблон:Sfn The first permanent playground in the park was opened in June 1910.Шаблон:Sfn By that time, a baseball field was planned for the park.Шаблон:Sfn The New York City Board of Recreation, which had recently been formed, began to arrange sporting events that drew crowds of spectators.Шаблон:Sfn

Interwar period (1919–41)

The Chelsea Doughboy Statue, which cost $10,000, was donated by the Chelsea Memorial Committee and dedicated on April 7, 1921.Шаблон:Sfn The decorative gateposts commemorating Dowling, Goodwin, and Kavanagh were installed in 1926.Шаблон:Sfn On August 18, 1925, a water tower from a nearby building collapsed on the park, injuring two children.Шаблон:Sfn

The Department of Parks reconstructed a section of the park from 1934 and 1936, and it reopened on June 25, 1936.Шаблон:Sfn In its announcement advertising the park's reopening, the Department of Parks said, "…the reconstructed area will have a large play area with one ball field, handball courts, complete play equipment for small children and a wading pool."Шаблон:Sfn A Шаблон:Convert, $175,000 health center for the middle of the park was proposed in 1935.Шаблон:Sfn Its cost later grew to $264,000.Шаблон:Sfn The Lower West Side Health Center, as it was called, was built as part of the Public Works Administration.Шаблон:Sfn The Health Center Building was opened to the public in July 1937.Шаблон:Sfn It was in the eastern part of the park and had a public playground on the roof.Шаблон:Sfn The Lower West Side Health Center was one of 8 clinics that were opened in the city that year,Шаблон:Sfn out of a total of 30 health centers that had been proposed for the city.Шаблон:Sfn At the time of its opening, there were 250,000 people living within the health center's service area.Шаблон:Sfn

A proposal to demolish the P.S. 33 building and replace it with an extension of the park was rejected in 1938.Шаблон:Sfn The Works Progress Administration (WPA) made further changes to the playground. They added a new area of asphalt in the west of the park, "graded so that it can be flooded for ice-skating when sub-freezing temperatures permit. In season it will be used for roller skating, roller hockey, softball, basketball and other group games."Шаблон:Sfn The WPA also built three basketball courts, three handball courts, two courts for pitching horseshoes, and one for skittles.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn This replaced the single baseball diamond that had formerly occupied that portion of the park.Шаблон:Sfn The 1940 restoration added floodlights to the softball diamonds.Шаблон:Sfn The children's playground was fully equipped with a large wading pool and brick washrooms, while the playground on the roof of the Health Center Building was converted to a sitting area.Шаблон:Sfn The WPA-restored park was officially opened on June 6, 1940, in a ceremony attended by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn At the time, it was hoped that the existing P.S. 33 structure would be relocated at a future date so the park could be expanded.Шаблон:Sfn

Postwar changes (1945–present)

In 1949, the New York City Planning Commission approved a project to add eight new recreation centers citywide, including a $450,000 indoor swimming pool in Chelsea Park,Шаблон:Sfn In November 1953, an extension to the park opened on the grounds of P.S. 33.Шаблон:Efn The new additions included two handball courts, three basketball courts, and exercise equipment.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1962, plans were announced to build a new post office annex between 28th and 29th Streets, immediately north of the park. The location was occupied by 215 families at the time.Шаблон:Sfn A fire in 1967 destroyed the Morgan Post Office Station, one block north of the park between 29th and 30th Streets.Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Sfn As of 1977 the park had recently been converted into an tarmac-based "adventure park" with a variety of playground equipment. That year, an environmental impact assessment for the post office annex was conducted.Шаблон:Sfn By 1979, the post office station had not been rebuilt, and the block between 28th and 29th Streets had remained undeveloped for over a decade.Шаблон:Sfn A postal truck facility planned for that block, which was canceled due to community opposition, was rebuilt at 11th Avenue between 24th and 26th Streets in 1988.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1988 the park was well-used from April to November, and the baseball fields were often fully booked. Crime was not a serious problem.Шаблон:Sfn The park was being used by homeless people, particularly at the 9th Avenue end, which discouraged the residents of the neighborhood from using that part.Шаблон:Sfn An upgrade to the active play equipment in the center portion of the park was planned for the Fall of 1988.Шаблон:Sfn In January 1989 a final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) was published for a Manhattan General Mail Facility Complex across West 28th Street.Шаблон:Sfn As part of the FEIS, upgrades to the park were proposed.Шаблон:Sfn

The playground and basketball courts were restored in the mid-1990s.Шаблон:Sfn The park was again upgraded in the decade leading up to 2016, but the six handball courts remained dilapidated. The New York City Parks Department, supported by the Fairway Community Foundation, finished refurbishment of the handball courts in 2016. Holes in the walls were patched up and the walls were repainted. The city spent $127,000 on renovations of Chelsea Park as well as at Coffey Park in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver was present at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the handball courts in August 2016.Шаблон:Sfn

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