New York Vauxhall Gardens

[1]: 132  Though the venue passed through a long list of owners, and suffered buyouts, closings, relocations, and re-openings, it lasted until the mid-19th century.

[2]: 45 In the mid-1760s, out-of-town taverns, such as John Clapp's in the Bowery,[4] had become popular in Colonial New York, taking advantage of the "Sunset Strip-like" jurisdiction, two miles from the post office,.

For the summer 1768 season, it hosted an exhibit on the life of Scipio Africanus that included a grove with a reconstruction of the military leader at his tent.

[2]: 45  Professional travel writer John Lambert visited in November 1807 and wrote, New York has its Vauxhall and Ranelagh; but they are poor imitations of those near London.

are performed in a small theatre situate in one corner of the gardens: the audience sit in what are called the pit and boxes, in the open air.

In 1826, he carved out an upper-class neighborhood from the site with Lafayette Street bisecting eastern gardens from western homes.

Architect Seth Geer designed eye-catching row houses called LaGrange Terrace for the development, and the area became a fashionable, upper-class residential district.