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Going around in circles...finally choosing a name The new park at the St. Vincent’s Triangle includes about five circular medallions set into its paving. Two are located near the park’s entrances along Seventh Ave., at W. 12th St. and Greenwich Ave., and three others are located more toward the park’s western side, near the site of the planned NYC AIDS Memorial, which is expected to be completed by this fall. The markers honor emergencies and health crises that the historic Catholic hospital, which closed in 2010, responded to during its more than 160 years of operation, including the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the sinking of the Titanic, the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the 2001 terror attack that leveled the World Trade Center. The group behind the AIDS Memorial project last month tweaked the captions on its design renderings of the memorial on its Web site so that they no longer referred to “St. Vincent’s Hospital Park” but to “New York City AIDS Memorial Park,” as seen in the image on this page, showing a screenshot taken on April 8. On Tuesday, the city’s Parks Department announced to The Villager that the site’s new name will be NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle, an at-
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tempt to honor “both sides” in the name debate. The AIDS Memorial group’s Web site, as of Wednesday, had not been updated and still referred to it as the New York City AIDS Memorial Park. The Parks Department planned to issue a formal
press release on Thursday, after the publication of The Villager’s exclusive article on the park’s name. Shown rising behind the park, below, is the new Greenwich Lane high-end condo project, being completed on the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site.
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