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John Jay Park is a 3.3-acre (13000 m2) park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between East 76th and 78th Streets and between the FDR Drive and a short street called Cherokee Place on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The park is named for statesman and New York Governor John Jay.In 1902 the city acquired through condemnation a parcel of land at the site of the park and opened a public bath house in 1906.