A Japanese official at the Olympic Village, the former U.S. Washington Heights housing area, points to the lone house that will be left standing in the village. The "little American village," returned to the Japanese to be used for the 1964 Olympics, is being torn down to make way for the new Yoyogi Forest Green Park. With the Olympics over, the Olympic Village is torn down to make way for the Yoyogi Forest Green Park. Before being returned to the Japanese in 1963 who built facilities for the 1964 Olympics on it - the site was known as Washington Heights - a 500-block community of 371 family dwelling units with room for 870 families, 12 four-story buildings tat oused another 550 unmarried personnel and nundreds of other facilities for American families.