Category:Bennett Park (New York City)

English: Bennett Park is a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835. It is located between Pinehurst and Fort Washington Avenues and West 183rd and 185th Streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights in northern Manhattan, on land purchased by Bennett in 1871. The land passed to his son, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., who intended to donate it to the city as a park, but died without adding the bequest to his will. The city purchased it in 1928 and the park opened in 1929. It was built on the site of Fort Washington, from which the Continental Army delayed the advance of British troops in 1776, during the Battle of Fort Washington in the American Revolutionary War. The park includes several memorials to that battle, other memorials, a children's playground, and the highest natural point in Manhattan.