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    City Hall Park: From the pasture to City Hall

    During the colonial period, this lovely park, now located in New York’s Civic Center, was far outside the city limits. It was known simply as the Commons—the open land north of the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam. Since its humble colonial beginnings, it has served as a pasture for livestock, a military parade ground, a…