Few things left in New York City date back ... from Wikimedia Commons. Bowling Green Park, as it came to be known, saw an important day in American history when in 1770, British forces installed ...

Bowling Green Is Surrounded By the Oldest Fence in New York City Bowling Green was designated ... was dedicated in Bowling Green on April 26, 1770. King George III was not the statue’s intended ...

There was no Bowling Green ... later, New Yorkers believed the English monarch was anything but a blessing, so down he went. After a reading of the Declaration of Independence at City Hall ...