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Fermi Playground

Brooklyn, New York

Welcome to Fermi Playground located in New York City's Brooklyn section. This park is named for the renouned Italian physicist Enrico Fermi who was born in Rome. Fermi went on to become a pioneer in Nuclear physics when he discovered the Paule Exclusion Principle. He taught in Italy for many years and received a nobel prize in 1938 and soon after that he fled Italy in order to escape the tyranny of Benito Mussolini.

1.06 acresabout three quarters of a football fields
Been here lately? Is this still accurate?
Acreage1.06
Managed byCity of New York
AddressIntersection of Starr Street and Central Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11221
Coordinates40.700686, -73.928394
Websitenone on file
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