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The recently renovated Abingdon Square Park is across the street from our building; this sweet triangular park is beautifully planted (with regular monthly contributions from our building and other buildings in the neighborhood) and features a small, but well-stocked Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings most of the year.
Writer-director-actress Adrienne Shelly was a moviemaker on the rise when she was tragically murdered in her office in the fall of 2006. Not long after, Waitress, the film Shelly wrote, directed and had a supporting role in, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival amidst a tearful cast and crew who were undoubtedly feeling the loss of their colleague. An independent moviemaker’s dream, after its success at Sundance, Waitress was picked up by Fox Searchlight and had an impressive theatrical film release in May of 2007 and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Spirit Award.
Abingdon Square Park is one of many pocket parks that the Parks department has renovated and revitalized in the last few years.
Farmers Markets: Sat 8 am-2 pm, year round
The City acquired the parcel on April 22 and enclosed it with a cast iron fence in 1836.
Abingdon Square Park shares its lineage with some of Greenwich Village’s earliest European landowners and social figures.
The dramatic bronze statue on a granite pedestal, dedicated in 1921, is by Philip Martiny (1858–1927), and depicts a foot soldier (known commonly in World War I as a “doughboy”) holding a swirling American flag in battle.
Nonetheless, school children planted a garden plot at Abingdon Square Park in 1913 and "took entire charge of the garden, raising the flower from seed."
Pilot program to expand current food scrap collections from NYC households at select Greenmarkets.
The Abingdon Square centerpiece is a little triangular park with decorative plantings. Part of the estate bought in 1740 by Sir Peter Warren of the British navy, it was a gift to his daughter Charlotte when she married the Earl of Abingdon.
In recent months, Community Board 2 has voted twice in favor of the design. If approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Art Commission, the $760,000 renovation could begin this summer. But to some, the proposed changes are anathema.
Abingdon Square Alliance (ASA) maintains the safety, cleanliness, and use of Abingdon Square Park’s green space for the community.
Parks Superintendent Samuel Parsons Jnr. and renowned Central Park Architect, Calvin Vaux collaborated around 1886 on the current design of the square.
Family and friends of the late actress/writer/director Adrienne Shelly, known best for her widely-praised indie film Waitress, attended the dedication...
This small park in Greenwich Village is one of the oldest in New York City (the grounds were included in the dowry of Charlotte Warren, who married the Fourth Earl of Abingdon in the mid-18th century). Central Park architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux helped to redesign the triangular park in the 1880s.
The square (a triangle, really) was originally part of a three hundred acre estate bought by Royal Navy officer Peter Warren in 1740.
The Abingdon Square Park, once part of a 300-acre estate bought by the Royal Naval officer Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Warren in 1740, was named for Warren’s daughter, Charlotte, Countess of Abingdon, who lived here during the 18th century.
Both spaces were designed by Parks Department landscape designer George Vellonakis.
Seven year-old Sophie Ostroy, daughter of Adrienne Shelly and 11 month-old old Cayla Levine, niece of writer/director Adrienne Shelly stand in front of the plaque dedicated in memory of Adrienne Shelly at the Adrienne Shelly Memorial Garden dedication ceremony at Abingdon Square Park on August 3, 2009 in New York City.
