"Walk through the spiked iron gates of St. Catherine’s Park in Lenox Hill, and you’ll feel like you’re entering almost any bustling New York City pocket park. Spread across this leafy, one-acre green space on First Avenue between 67th and 68th Streets are picnic tables, a playground, and ball courts. On a warm June afternoon, a sprinkler shaped like an elephant sprays water over gleeful kids, and weary parents occupy the many wood benches. But St. Catherine’s, which opened as a city park in 1917 and takes its name from the Church of St. Catherine of Siena across First Avenue on East 68th Street, has something to it that’s unique among Gotham’s many community parks. ...”
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