Brook Trout carved into paths at Minetta Green park.

Minetta Brook in Washington Square Park

Minetta Brook once ran aboveground in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.  The stream was spring fed and emerged at 16th Street at Sixth Avenue and between 21st and 20th Streets at Fifth Avenue. These tributaries joined mid-block between 11th/12th Streets and Sixth and Fifth Avenues (closer to Fifth Avenue). The brook flowed through