Bennett Park

Bennett Park, also known as James Gordon Bennett Park, is a 1.8-acre public park in , named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: park in New York City
  • Also known as: James Gordon Bennett Park

Places of Interest

Highlights include 181st Street station and Fort Tryon Jewish Center.

Metro station
The is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located beneath Fort Washington Avenue in the Hudson Heights section of the neighborhood, between 181st and 184th Streets.

Synagogue
The is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 524 Fort Washington Avenue between West 183rd and 184th Streets, across from Bennett Park in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of in .

Park
is a public park located in the section of in . It runs along the banks of the next to Riverside Drive and the Henry Hudson Parkway from West 155th Street to Dyckman Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Washington Heights and Morris Heights.

Quarter
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of in . It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood located in the West Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: West Burnside Avenue to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the south, and the to the west.

Neighborhood
is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the central-west section of , . Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, to the south, and the to the west.

Bennett Park

Latitude
40.85284° or 40° 51′ 10″ north
Longitude
-73.93811° or 73° 56′ 17″ west
Elevation
253 feet (77 metres)
Open location code
87G8V336+4Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 104078386
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
5108785
Wiki­data ID
Q2729185
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Russian—“Bennett Park” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: Bennett Park
  • Catalan: James Gordon Bennett Park
  • Cebuano: Bennett Park (parke sa Estados Unidos, New York)
  • Cebuano: Bennett Park
  • Chinese: 布尼特公園
  • Dutch: Bennett Park
  • French: Bennett Park
  • Hebrew: פארק בנט
  • Japanese: ベネット・パーク (ニューヨーク)
  • Japanese: ベネット・パーク (ニューヨーク市)
  • Russian: Беннетт-парк

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