The walkways in the north side of City Hall Park, closed since 1999, when descriptive excavation of burials by Parsons, Inc. and thought associated with the "First Almshouse" were found relatively near the surface of planned upgrades to the park (retractable stone bollards, similarly as seen on British TV recently destroying a would be truck bomb) will open next week. The statue of Horace Greeley, a monument to Joseph Pulitzer and an American Engineering monument to what was arguably the city's first art museum building, a circular painted scenic vista, I think later owned by PT Barnum of Bridgeport, Connecticut before he moved to larger quarters, once between former British Army barracks, the old city gaol and now currently the Tweed Courthouse and City Hall, will all be on view again. City Hall was designed by the architect of the President George Washington commissioned lighthouse at Montauk Point, John McComb, Jr. and with others also designed the dam so named in NYC the park which it became, today in part the site of the new Yankee Stadium under construction.
A Lower Manhattan Shortcut to Reopen After Seven Years
Northern End of City Hall Park to Reopen
Views of City Hall, "the oldest still in use as one in America" (contested statement, once under mock siege by Bostonians who due to a computer glitch were issued thousands of traffic tickets, for example see "Mr. Bloomberg, Perth Amboy Begs to Differ" )
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