Morningside Park – Harlem Travel Guide – iPhone and iPad App
A Revolutionary War battle was fought here in 1776
Morningside Park is located between 110th and 123rd Streets and Morningside Drive and Manhattan Avenue, and is 30 acres in size. The park takes its name from its eastern side—where the sun rises in the morning. The city commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (co-designers of Central and Prospect Parks) to produce a design for the park in 1870, but construction did not begin until 1883 after their original design was revised. The Morningside Ave. side of the park is tucked underneath a massive buttressed masonry retaining wall with a parapet. A series of esplanades, with 30-foot-wide walkways linked by steps, lead down to the Manhattan Ave. side of the park. The park is home to the following statues: Lafayette and Washington by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (1900), the Carl Schurz Memorial by Karl Bitter and Henry Bacon (1913), and the Seligman (Bear and Faun) fountain by Edgar Walter (1914). The park also contains an arboretum and an ornamental pond and waterfall. On July 15, 2008, the park was designated a New York Scenic Landmark, the city’s first since 1983. On Saturdays, from the end of May to mid-December, a Farmers Market is open at the plaza entrance to the park at 110th Street and Manhattan Ave. from 9 to 5, rain or shine.
Facilities: Baseball diamond, dog run, playgrounds, basketball courts, handball courts, volleyball court, and a small recreation center.
Now that you just had a relaxing time in the park let’s get something to eat and drink, a stop at Miss Mamie’s Spoonbread Too for finger licking soul food. Then for that perfect drink go down to bier international where they have over thirty types of beers waiting for you.
Transportation: Bus—M3, M4, M7, M11, M116. Subway—B, C to 110th St.
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Finally we know where to go!!! 
Posted by A Texas Titan on 1st Jan 2012
Greetings WTH,
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