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Article: Lincoln Park Area: History and Open Space
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 21, 1989
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To many people, Lincoln Park is the big park on East Capitol
Street they have to go around to get to RFK Stadium. To others, it's
the site of the Emancipation Monument and the Mary McLeod Bethune
statue.
But to residents of the 40 blocks around Lincoln Park, the two
square blocks of green space are the center of their community.
"The park is being used as it was intended to be used," said
Becky Dye, who lives just off the park on Tennessee Avenue NE. "It's
everyone's back yard."
The park, owned and maintained by the federal government, is
used for sunbathing, jogging, games of soccer, football and croquet,
picnics, snowman-building and the old-fashioned art of just plain
strolling, ...