Park Place: where the name comes from · Stop Stories New York

Named after Park Place, where King’s College, later Columbia, once stood.

King’s College, founded in 1754 by royal charter of King George II, moved in 1760 into its own building on land donated by Trinity Church at today’s Park Place. Renamed Columbia College in 1784, it sold the campus in 1857 and moved to Madison Avenue and East 49th Street.

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Sources

College Place, Tribeca Forgotten New York
Columbia University Wikipedia
Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station Wikipedia

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