Seven Gables Playground

American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) is the namesake of nearby J.H.S. 74, so Parks named this playground after one of his best known books. Hawthorne published The House of the Seven Gables in 1851, just one year after The Scarlet Letter. The author notes in a short preface to the novel that it is “a romance.” Hawthorne wishes his readers to dispense with the constraints of realism so that he might employ the fantastic and the improbable to address abstract truths about human existence. The relationship between the past and the present is a central concern in Seven Gables as Hawthorne relates the unusual history of one house and its inhabitants.

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• Basketball Courts
• Handball Courts
• Playgrounds

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More About Seven Gables Playground

Zip Code: 11364
Community Board: 11
Council Member:Barry Grodenchik
Park ID: Q021C
Acreage: 1.30
Property Type: Jointly Operated Playground

Other Parks Nearby

• Cunningham Park (0.21 miles)
• Tall Oak Playground (0.45 miles)
• Kissena Corridor Park (0.57 miles)
• Saul Weprin Playground (0.59 miles)