• Collect Pond, or Fresh Water Pond,[1] was a body of fresh water in what is now Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
  • By 1811, the City had completed the filling of Collect Pond. A neighborhood known as Paradise Square soon arose over the pond’s previous site.
  • 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 Park is located in Chinatown/Lower Manhattan and has a very cool history.
  • 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...
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  • A few wells had tapped into underground springs, some of which supplied the water to Collect Pond. This water was reputed to be fresh and of superior quality.
  • Collect Pond Park is a city park in lower Manhattan’s Chinatown. The park is built over what was once the main water supply for the European Settlement...