East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath
East 120th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues
This is actually the site of a bath that was never built. The city acquired a small plot behind the Harlem Courthouse for a public bath in 1929. But the era of public baths had long passed and in the absence of formal activity, the plot became an informal sitting park. It became an official park in 1945, with Sylvan Place, a short connecting street to the West of the plot being closed off in the early 1980s and officially added to the park in 1992. The rather barren space was renamed the "East Harlem Art Park" and features "Growth" a 15-foot-high red sculpture by Jorge Rodriguez that was dedicated in 1985. The former Sylvan Place gives an attractive view of an entrance to the modernist PS 7, Samuel Stern School across the street (historical sign)
East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath
East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath
East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath
East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath
East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath
East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath
East 120th Street at Sylvan Place Public Bath