Syosset-Woodbury Community Park is a park located between the hamlet of Syosset and Woodbury, New York.[disambiguation needed]
Syosset-Woodbury Community Park used to be a part of the Woodbury House (Woodbury, New York), an Gold Coast Era English-style mansion owned by James Watson Webb II, that was finished in 1914. The house cost around $300,000 dollars and featured thirteen master-sized bedrooms and baths, an enclosed porch and a reflecting pool.[1] There, Webb would raise four children. However, James Watson Webb would eventually join the US Army in 1917, and his wife, Electra Havemeyer would spend more time at their Vermont house. This would result in Edward Richmond Tinker purchasing the home and land in 1921. He would use this land to expand his General Farms & Realty Corporation, and sell poultry to Long Island.[2] In 1962, Gilbert Tilles bought the land, and attempted to convert it into an industrial park, known as Crossways.[2] Due to pressure from local community, Tilles was eventually pressured into donated 46 acres for a new community park, Syosset-Woodbury Community Park, which had long been the vision of Town of Oyster Bay councilman, Judge Edward J. Poulous.
Syosset-Woodbury Park is used for a variety of different activities, and as a result has a lot of different facilities. The park contains tennis, courts, a multi-use turf field, a playground, a basketball, an ice skating rink, a pool, and a pre-school. The Woodbury House is now used for the storage of different equipment.
Category: Syosset, New YorkCategory: Woodbury, New YorkCategory: Parks in Nassau County, New York