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This playground gets its name from the original name for Glendale: Dry Harbor. A description of the area from the 1700s, looking from Cooper Avenue across the valley to Forest Park, said that the houses, which appeared to be sitting atop the crests of trees and hills resembled a harbor with no water. In 1869, area residents changed the neighborhood name to Glendale, but Dry Harbor Road and Dry Harbor Playground preserve the original name. The Dry Harbor nursery school house dates back to the 19th century and the birth of Forest Park. At that time the Brooklyn Parks Department managed parklands in what is now all of Queens and Brooklyn (an independent Queens Parks Department was established in 1911).
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This is a subproperty of Forest Park
