Photo: Google Street View 2011
Building at 32 Carmine Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan,
designed by Aymur Embury II in 1934[1]. The sign over the door says
Downing Street Playground.
References:
- Greenwich
Village Historic District Extension II Designation Report, NYC Landmarks
Preservation Commission, 22 June 2010, pp.124-125: "The Downing Street
Playground is located on an L-shaped lot that the City of New York began
amassing in 1857 when it purchased the Friends Meeting House on Downing
Street for a public school. Eleven years later the City purchased the
adjoining property to the west and the following year built a new,
three-story school, Primary School 13, on the combined sites. The lot
adjoining the school to the northwest was acquired by condemnation in 1896
for use as the school playground. The City demolished the school in 1921 and
in 1924 turned the property over to the Parks Department. In 1934, under
Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, Aymar Embury II designed the
neo-Colonial recreation building with vaulted passage at 32 Carmine Street
as a gateway to the brick walled playground."