Duane Park
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Duane Park is the second oldest public park in New York City. Once part of a 62-acre farm outside the limits of the New Amsterdam Settlement., the property was granted to Roeloff and Annetje Jans by Governor Wouter Van Twiller in 1636 and Roeloff Jans was contracted by the West India Company to farm the plot. After Roeloff's death in 1637, Annetje married Everardus Bogardus, the second minister of the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam. The farm was renamed Dominie's Bouwerie. In 1664 the English took over New Amsterdam, and in 1670 Governor Francis Lovelace acquired the farm. Although the Dutch retook New Amsterdam three years later, Jan's heirs did not lay claim to the farm. However, when the English returned in 1674, the Duke of York (later King James II) confiscated Lovelace's farm. In 1705, the royal family granted the farm to Trinity Church and it became known as the Trinity's Lower Farm. When Duane Street was laid out in 1794 it isolated a triangle of land too small to build on. Three years later the city purchased this remnant of Trinity's Lower Farm to make a park. In the 1887, Mayor Abram Hewitt and Super Intendent of Parks, Samuel Parks Jr., chose Calvert Vaux to redesign many of the small parks in the city, including Duane Park. The Parsons-Vaux design remained in place until 1940 when the planted area was replaced with concrete. Renewal plans intend to restore the spirit of of the Parsons-Vaux design.
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