Abingdon Square

Great park to sit down, talk, and enjoy a meal. It is also extremely nice at night. There is a children’s park right next door. It is a cut through from bleecker to Hudson, but a great place to practice skateboarding or riding a bike.

This refuge across from Bleecker street playground is supremely underappreciated. Don’t tell EVERYONE, but come here yourself and just don’t review, please and thanks.
Well, maybe just tell ‘em about the Abingdon Square Doughboy, which is featured prominently on gMaps

We frequently change buses here late at night and I’ve always liked the charming look of this neighborhood, but today I was there during daylight hours (late afternoon) and had the chance to relax in this lovely park. It’s a good size for a «small» park and it has lots of benches. There’s also a nice statue in the middle. Considering the amount of traffic in that vicinity, the park was surprisingly peaceful.

Nice small park, with all the hustle and bustle of the dog eat dog city you can find some tranquility in this park. Mostly people walking their pets and others just reading paper books.
Yes paper not E Books. Lol!!! The trash cans are shaped like old wood stoves and this adds a nice décor to this place. I like here to meditate and just rest my weary dogs.

Whether it was when I lived a couple of blocks away or now that I’m 15 minutes out, via PATH, I still find myself grabbing 3 deeelish cupcakes at Magnolia, sitting in this park during the springtime months and relaxing, people-​watching or delving into abstruse conversation with a date.
When I say «delving into abstruse conversation», I really mean «egregiously participating in unadulterated public displays of affection».
Yea, I really don’t care what people think of my flagrant behavior.

You know, I’ve been holding off on reviewing parks. Part of me feels like it’s a cop-​out review (especially when it comes to some of the bigger parks)… I mean, it’s a park. What am I going to say? I feel that any patch of grass in New York should be cherished and treasured; I may be the softest park critic to be found.
But it’s time for a change. I’m going to review parks. Review them hard. I’m going to review them like it’s my nonexistent job. Abingdon Square Park has one review to its name. We can do better.
Abingdon Square Park is a little triangle, a tiny wedge of a park, nestled between 8^th Avenue, Bank, Hudson and West 12^th Streets. This sliver weighs in at a miniscule .222 acres, and makes for a quaint little spot for Greenwich Village residents, homeless people, and everybody else strolling through (ex: shopping fashionistas) to sit and relax. While there’s more space devoted to benches/​the path, there’s some greenery and in the summer it doesn’t feel sparse — on a sunny day it’s a pretty little thing that melds right into this darling neighborhood.
I’m always amazed that Abingdon Square Park somehow remains peaceful, as it should be ridiculously noisy due to the streets that converge all around it. I first stumbled upon this little plot on a walk downtown from Chelsea to my apartment in the Financial District (it’s not a bad little trek). I grabbed a sandwich at a cute little shop nearby and brought it here to eat.
While eating, I remember marveling at the statue, because the patriotic dude’s a badass with a pistol in his hand and an American flag swirling around him. (I did some Internet research, and apparently he’s a WWI foot soldier who was commonly called a «doughboy.» I can’t make this stuff up.)
So Abingdon Square, this is your time to shine ’cause you inspired me. You’re the first park I’m reviewing and the headliner of my brand spankin’ new park list, dedicated to every little patch of green I encounter on this fair isle. Cheers to the little guy.
Click on the link to read more about the history of Abingdon Square Park:
as well as here at