De Matti Park

Tompkins Ave., bet. Chestnut St. and Shaughnessy La.

Staten Island

De Matti Playground Field House hours and programming

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

De Matti Park is one of nine playgrounds that NYC Parks built through a war memorial fund. They opened simultaneously on July 15, 1934. Nicholas 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).