


Boss Tweed and 19 Months that Changed Central Park
LW! is doing a little time traveling to explore the darker side of the development of Central Park. It is somewhat miraculous that the park even exists, as back in the 1850s real estate developers and politicians were just as cozy as today. Add in the nefarious reign of William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, notorious leader of New York...
los ABCs del parque central (¡en español!)
In honor of Keeping the Past for the Future’s Spanish language initiative, launched September 2015, we offer this blog post translation. The goal is to translate and provide access to Spanish dominant families about what their children are learning in the classrooms. Thank you Lourdes Davila for your beautiful...
ABCs of Central Park, a Labor Day Tour for Kids
Labor Day morning in Central Park provided a special treat for about 25 Upper West Siders and their friends in the form of a tour by prolific author, sculptor, and Upper West Sider, G Augustine Lynas. The children ranged in age from 5 to 13 and were all enthusiastic participants in The ABCs of Central Park, the title of the book and tour. We met...