vest-pocket park

noun

1. pocket park.

Word History and Origins

Origin of vest-pocket park¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

The vest-pocket park sits to the west of Buttermilk Park at the tail end of Wilks Avenue.

From Washington Times

For more than 35 years, the site of 433 Broadway was occupied by the oddest structure among the cast-iron lofts of SoHo: a one-story, hexagonal, vaguely neo-Colonial bank set in a vest-pocket park.

From New York Times

At the Piraeus Bank, a small unimposing branch facing a vest-pocket park, they were given small paper tickets like deli slips with numbers written on them to mark their place in line.

From New York Times

He’s best known, of course, for his use of songs as a shield and weapon, but to get the full Pete Seeger you had to see him sing “Abiyoyo” as he danced on his long pipe-cleaner legs through the children gathered on Little Stony Point, a vest-pocket park that he helped create along the Hudson.

From New York Times

The city’s first vest-pocket park, Paley Park, on 53rd Street, features one that looks like a water wall.

From New York Times