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'''J. Hood Wright Park''' is a park of the [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]] which is located between [[Fort Washington Avenue|Fort Washington]] and [[Haven Avenue (Manhattan)|Haven Avenue]], and between [[173rd Street (Manhattan)|West 173rd]] and [[176th Street (Manhattan)|176th]] Streets in the [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. The {{convert|6.7|acres|ha}} park includes a playground – which features a model of the nearby [[George Washington Bridge]], which is visible from the park, basketball courts, ballfields, and a recreation center, as well as a dog walk, a cave in the natural rock formations which form the park's western boundary, and an installation of a piece of modern sculpture, "3000 AD Diffussion Piece" by [[Terry Fugate-Wilcox]].<ref name=parks />
The park is named for the man who formerly owned the site, [[James Hood Wright|J. Hood Wright]] (1836-1894), a banker, financier and philanthropist born in Philadelphia, who lived in a mansion on 175th Street and Haven Avenue. Wright anonymously gave money to convert the local subscription library into a free library which became a branch of the [[New York Public Library]].<ref name=parks>
{{cite web |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/jhoodwrightpark/ The city acquired the land by ''[[eminent domain]]'' in 1925, specifically to build a park, which the neighborhood was lacking in. It has been upgraded and renovated, and the [[cupola]] of the hexagonal recreation center was restored in 2013.<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/jhoodwrightpark/pressrelease/21117 == References ==
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