Accessibility Info
PARK FACT:
Do you know an interesting tidbit about De Matti Playground that you’d like to share? Please send it to us! Be sure to include the park name in your message.
De Matti Playground
Tompkins Ave., bet.ween Chestnut St. and Shaughnessy La.
Staten Island
Directions: Google Maps | MTA Trip Planner
Acres: 2.33
This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
Nicholas De Matti Playground is one of nine playgrounds that Parks built through a war memorial fund. They opened simultaneously on July 15, 1934. De Matti was a Private, First Class, in Company K, 310th Infantry, 78th Division, and a Staten Island native. He died in action in the Mihiel Sector at St. North Thiaucourt, France on September 26, 1918, less than two months before the end of World War I (1914-1918).
Directions to De Matti Playground
 |
