• Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond,[1] was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
  • Located on Leonard Street between Centre and Lafayette Streets, this park occupies the eighteenth century site of Collect Pond.
  • Collect Pond Park - Fed by an underground spring, the pond was the main water supply for New York City in the early eighteenth century.
  • Collect Pond House. Important Contacts. ... Co-op Events. Collect Pond House. P5050560.JPG.
  • An underground spring which fed the pond was eventually widened into a canal and allowed much of the toxic water from Collect Pond to flow into the Hudson.
  • Collect Pond was a large pond that used to exist in Lower Manhattan. It became polluted and was filled in with dirt in the early 1800s and the neighborhood b...
  • Collect Pond Park is located in Chinatown/Lower Manhattan and has a very cool history.
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  • And, as an interesting note, it was n Collect Pond that, in 1796, Connecticut inventor John Fitch tested the first successful steam-powered paddle boat.