Langone Park

{{Short description|Park in Boston, Massachusetts}}

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Langone Park is a waterfront park in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1973,{{cite web |url=https://www.boston.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/improvements-langone-park-and-puopolo-playground |title=Improvements to Langone Park and Puopolo Playground |publisher=Boston Department of Parks and Recreation |accessdate=2018-01-24}} it is named for Massachusetts state senator Joseph A. Langone, Jr. and his wife Clementina Langone.{{cite news|title=200 attend dedication of N. End Park|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/747784618|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=September 14, 1975|url-access=subscription }} The park features a Little League Baseball field, a playground, and three bocce courts.{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Patricia|title=Boston: a Guide to Unique Places |year=2004 |publisher=The Globe Pequot Press |isbn=0-7627-3011-0 |pages=63–64 |last2=Lyon |first2=David}} It is located on Commercial Street at the edge of Boston Harbor, immediately to the west of the Andrew P. Puopolo Jr. Athletic Field.{{cite book|last1=Bahne|first1=Charles|title=Chronicles of Old Boston: Exploring New England's Historic Capital|date=2012|isbn=9780984633401|page=201|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg9MBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201}}

The first park at the location, North End Beach (later North End Park), was established in 1893 as a public bathing facility.{{cite web |url=http://goodoldboston.blogspot.com/2011/07/north-end-beach.html |work=And This Is Good Old Boston |date=July 21, 2011 |title=The North End Beach}}

The park includes much of the area inundated by the 1919 Great Molasses Flood.{{cite news|last1=Schworm|first1=Peter|title=Nearly a century later, structural flaw in molasses tank revealed|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/01/14/nearly-century-later-new-insight-into-cause-great-molasses-flood/CNqLYc0T58kNo3MxP872iM/story.html|accessdate=13 March 2016|publisher=Boston Globe|date=January 14, 2015}}

To the southwest the park borders Copp's Hill Terrace and further south is Copp's Hill Burial Ground. Both sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{Cite web|title=Massachusetts - List View (U.S. National Park Service)|url=https://www.nps.gov/state/ma/list.htm?program=all|access-date=2021-01-08|website=www.nps.gov}}

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