In this park once stood a stone mansion, built in the 1840s, that Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia used as his summer City Hall in 1937. The mansion was torn down a couple of years later, and in 1966 the park was renamed for the late Hermon Atkins MacNeil, a sculptor and former resident of College Point whose best-known work is the Standing Liberty quarter.
Day 14
Empty ballfield
January 13th, 2012
Matt how do you know all this stuff? Interesting for sure. Wonder why they tore down the mansion?
While I love a good park, it’s a shame about the mansion.
Find any of those rare, valuable quarters in the park, Matt? ;-)