Manhattan · New York County
Septuagesimo Uno Park
NYC Parks
- Location
- West 71st Street between West End Avenue and the Hudson River
- Size
- 0.04 acres
- Hours
- 6 AM - 1 AM daily
- Type
- NYC Parks
Septuagesimo Uno Park, Latin for 'Seventy-One,' is a small neighborhood park on the Upper West Side whose unusual name reflects the 19th-century fashion for Latin nomenclature in New York civic naming.
The park occupies a narrow strip of land between West End Avenue and the Riverside Park retaining wall, providing a quiet neighborhood green space on a block that is otherwise fully developed with residential apartment buildings.
The Upper West Side between 70th and 72nd Streets is the neighborhood's commercial heart, centered on the intersection of Broadway and 72nd Street where the landmark Ansonia Hotel, the Beacon Theatre, and Gray's Papaya create one of the liveliest corners on the West Side.
Small neighborhood parks like Septuagesimo Uno serve the Upper West Side's dense residential population with modest outdoor amenities that supplement the major parks (Central Park and Riverside Park) a few blocks in either direction.
Septuagesimo Uno Park provides a small green space with one of the most delightfully pretentious names in the New York City park system, a Latin flourish on a quiet Upper West Side block.