Special Features. — This park contains 2 baseball diamonds ; 2 tennis 

 courts; a playground; and the "school farms." This latter is a plot of 

 land on which school children are permitted to raise vegetables. Each 

 child is assigned a plot 6 feet by 12 feet. There are 180 of these plots. 

 The children furnish their own seed and utensils and, of course, keep 

 the produce. The department plows the ground in the Spring. The 

 "School Farms" is under the supervision and direction of the park fore- 

 man, the same as are the playgrounds. Two other "School Farms" were 

 started (one in Crotona and one in Claremont), but were abandoned by 

 the department because of lack of interest and neglect on the part of 

 the children. 



McCOMB'S DAM PARK. 



Area. — This park has an area of 27 acres. 



Means of Access. — Sixth and Ninth Avenue Elevated Railways to 

 155th Street; thence walk or take any trolley across Viaduct and Mc- 

 Comb's Dam Bridge. 



Broadway Branch of Subway to 157th Street Station; walk south to 

 155th .Street; take any surface car eastward. 



Third Avenue Railway to 161st Street Station; thence by surface 

 car west through 161st Street to park. 



The park can be reached from the East Bronx by any crosstown 

 trolley of the Union Railway transferring south on the Jerome Avenue 

 line. 



The park can also be reached by any Union Railway line transferring 



west on the 161st Street line which goes direct to the park. 



Special Features. — Three-fifths of this park is devoted to sports. 

 There are: 4 baseball diamonds; 10 tennis courts; athletic field with 

 running track which is lighted at night so that it may be used by those 

 who cannot use it in the day. Dressing rooms with shower baths, etc., 

 are provided. There is also a fully equipped playground. The portion 

 of the park lying along the Harlem River is nearly all used by rowing 

 clubs. 



Historical Associations. — The present McComb's Dam Bridge is 

 practically on the site of the old McComb's Dam Bridge, near which 

 was the old McComb Dam, making a pond out of the Harlem to turn 

 the McComb Mill at Kingsbridge. The dam was broken down by a 

 delegation of citizens about 1840 and, being declared by the courts a 

 public nuisance, was abandoned. 



POE PARK. 

 Area. — This park has an area of 2.33 acres. 



Means of Access. — This park can be reached by either the Third 

 Avenue Elevated Railway or the Harlem Branch of the New York Cen- 



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