by NYC Parks
Photo: Participant/team Sheila, Wiki Takes Manhattan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Seward Park on the Lower East Side is home to one of America's earliest city-built playgrounds. Today kids climb, slide and swing there, with the Seward Park library branch right across the street.
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Typically open daily dawn to dusk
Free; open to the public, no registration
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Ages 1–12.
Free; open to the public, no registration
Typically open daily dawn to dusk
Canal, Essex, Hester & Jefferson Sts, 10002, in the Lower East Side, Manhattan.
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