The park has sports fields, basketball and handball courts, a children's playground and space for sitting.

The surface is mostly tarmac or artificial turf, with pits for the plane trees and some plots with annual flower plantings.

[4][3] The annex to the Morgan General Mail Facility occupies the block directly to the north of the park.

[5] The Church of the Holy Apostles, built in 1848, is located on the east side of 9th Avenue across from the park.

The beds of annual plants around the monument and the health center are the only vegetated and permeable areas of the park other than the tree pits.

[8] The six-story Morgan Mail Building along the northern perimeter is a high-collision site for birds, with collisions peaking in mid May.

[10] A study in the spring and autumn of 2005 and 2006 collected the corpses of many migratory birds that had collided with the windows of the six-story USPS building, deceived by the reflections of the greenery in the park.

The statue was created by the French-born sculptor Philip Martiny (1858–1927) and cast by the Roman Bronze Works foundry of New York.

[16] The city's Art Commission, chaired by sculptor Robert Aitken, rejected Martiny's first submission in which the doughboy's pose was less dynamic.

[15] Also in front of the District Health Center there are two pairs of memorial gate posts that were commissioned by the Horatio Seymour Tammany Club and installed in 1926.

[32] The New York City Board of Recreation, which had recently been formed, began to arrange sporting events that drew crowds of spectators.

[18] On August 18, 1925, a water tower from a nearby building collapsed on the park, injuring two children.

[34] In its announcement advertising the park's reopening, the Department of Parks said, "…the reconstructed area will have a large play area with one ball field, handball courts, complete play equipment for small children and a wading pool.

[37] The Lower West Side Health Center, as it was called, was built as part of the Public Works Administration.

They added a new area of asphalt in the west of the park, "graded so that it can be flooded for ice-skating when sub-freezing temperatures permit.

[43] In 1962, plans were announced to build a new post office annex between 28th and 29th Streets, immediately north of the park.

[45] A fire in 1967 destroyed the Morgan Post Office Station, one block north of the park between 29th and 30th Streets.

[45] A postal truck facility planned for that block, which was canceled due to community opposition, was rebuilt at 11th Avenue between 24th and 26th Streets in 1988.

[2] The park was being used by homeless people, particularly at the 9th Avenue end, which discouraged the residents of the neighborhood from using that part.

[49] An upgrade to the active play equipment in the center portion of the park was planned for the Fall of 1988.

[50] In January 1989 a final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) was published for a Manhattan General Mail Facility Complex across West 28th Street.

The New York City Parks Department, supported by the Fairway Community Foundation, finished refurbishment of the handball courts in 2016.

Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver was present at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the handball courts in August 2016.