Dante Park
Dante Park is a public park in Manhattan, New York City, located on the Upper West Side in front of Lincoln Center near Central Park. Dante Park was established in 1921 by Italian-Americans in honor of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri on a triangular plot of land opposite Lincoln Center, bounded by Broadway, Columbus Avenue, and West 63rd Street.Photo: Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: park in New York City
- Also known as: “Dante Square”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest
Highlights include Central Park and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Central Park
Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Arts center
Photo: Paulo JC Nogueira, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to five million visitors annually.
The Juilliard School
University
Photo: Yair-haklai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Juilliard School is a private conservatory for performing arts in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became the Juilliard School, named after its principal benefactor Augustus D.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lincoln Square and Theater District.
Lincoln Square
Neighborhood
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Lincoln Square is the name of both a square and the surrounding neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Lincoln Square is centered on the intersection of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, between West 65th and 66th streets.
Theater District
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Broadway. Times Square. Madison Square Garden. The name says it all: the Theater District is the entertainment hub of the city, and possibly the entire nation.
Diamond District
Neighborhood
Photo: ChrisRuvolo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
A diamond district is an area where the cutting, polishing, and trade of diamonds and other gems takes place. There are a number of these districts around the world, including: It may also refer to Diamond District, an American hip-hop group formed by Oddisee, Uptown XO & Yu.
Dante Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.77192° or 40° 46′ 19″ northLongitude
-73.98257° or 73° 58′ 57″ westElevation
75 feet (23 metres)Named after
Dante AlighieriOpen location code
87G8Q2C8+QXOpenStreetMap ID
way 154416663OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesGeoNames ID
6348284Wikidata ID
Q5221180
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Dante Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dante Park”
- French: “parc Dante”
- French: “Parc Dante”
- German: “Dante Park”
- Italian: “Dante Park”
- Italian: “Dante Square”
- Spanish: “Dante Park”
- Spanish: “Dante Square”
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Notable Places Nearby
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