Stuyvesant Square

Stuyvesant Square ( down about Second Avenue and 16-18th Streets) is a place I have not been to in a long while...it has really improved for the better, which does not surprise me given the constant gentrification of Manhattan.

Note that parents now let their kids play alone to some extent in place where drug dealers used to hang out...however, St. Gaudens Playground up the Avenue still has very strict rules that adults can only be there to accompany children and often have a guard coming around to keep an eye on the place. This is still NYC, of course.