Bennett Park (New York City)
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Bennett Park, also known as James Gordon Bennett Park, is a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835. It is located between Pinehurst and Fort Washington Avenues and West 183rd and 185th Streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights in northern Manhattan, on land purchased by Bennett in 1871, the year before his death. It sits opposite the northern Fort Washington Avenue entrance to the 181st Street subway station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, serviced by the A train.
The highest natural point in Manhattan; in the inset is the stone marker seen in the lower right of the larger image.
Plaque commemorating the site of Fort Washington; see the close up of the right-hand badge at the bottom of the plaque in this article's gallery of images
Badge on front of the Fort Washington stele
Cannon, part of the Fort Washington memorials
The 181st Street station is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located beneath Fort Washington Avenue in the Hudson Heights section of the Washington Heights neighborhood, between 181st and 184th Streets. The station is served by the A train at all times.
Platform view looking south
Mosaic name tablet
Concourse level, facing south
Overlook Terrace entrance at West 184th Street