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:
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But dry sterile thunder without rain
There is not even solitude in the mountains”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“You turn
To speak to someone beside the dock and the lighthouse
Shines like garnets. It has become a stricture.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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