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Joseph Petrosino (born Giuseppe Petrosino, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe petroˈziːno;-ˈsiːno]; August 30, 1860 – March 12, 1909) was an Italian-born New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who was a pioneer in the fight against organized crime. Crime fighting techniques that Petrosino pioneered are still practiced by law enforcement agencies.
Bike share docking station on opening day. Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino Square is small triangular park in Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by Cleveland Place, Lafayette and Kenmare Streets, two blocks north of the old police headquarters at 240 Centre Street, at the juncture of the Little Italy, Nolita, and SoHo.
Type: Playground: Location: New York City (Bensonhurst, Brooklyn), New York: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 0.87 acres (0.352 ha; 0.001 sq mi): Elevation: 49 feet (15 m): Opened: May 24, 1935 (): Founder: City of New York: Etymology: Named after Lt. Joseph Petrosino, NYPD: Operated by: New York City Department of Parks & Recreation: Open: All year 6:00 am – 1:00 am [2]: Designation: Playground as ...
Petrosino Square [6] Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground [7] Columbus Park [8] Father Demo Square [9] DeSalvio Playground [10] Fiorello La Guardia Park; Vincent F. Albano Jr. Playground; Verdi Square; Dante Park; Columbus Monument (Central Park) Giovanni da Verrazzano Monument (Battery Park) Peter Caesar Alberti Marker (Battery Park)
A single staircase from each platform goes down to a landing around a now-closed station house. A single full height turnstile provides access to/from the station before another staircase goes down to either southern corners of New Utrecht Avenue and 69th Street. Nearby is the Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino Park. [9]
The square is the site of a number of civic buildings including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933-built United States Courthouse, fronted by the sculpture Triumph of the Human Spirit by artist Lorenzo Pace; the New York County Courthouse; the Church of St. Andrew; the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse – known before 2003 as the Foley Square Courthouse ...
It was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] It was rehabilitated in 1985 when founder of Friends of McGolrick Park and at the time Greenpoint Community Coalition Leader Patricia Tambakis seen the decay (graffiti, broken bottles and litter) of the park while visiting with ...
It is the first new riverside park to be built in the area in over sixty years, and is the first of a planned series of parks to be linked by a bike route to create the South Bronx Greenway. [ 1 ] Ground was broken July 19, 2004, on a US$ 3.2 million project to convert a vacant lot used as an illegal dumping ground into a 1.4-acre (5,700 m 2 ...