Dry Dock Park
Dry Dock Park, located at the northern end (11th and Avenue D): A small park with a public pool—named for the neighborhood's former tradition of ship repair. The corner was formerly the site of the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co.
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Famous quotes containing the words dry, dock and/or park:
“If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his “comb” and “spare shirt,” “leathern breeches” and “gauze cap to keep off gnats,” with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)