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Design Commission Dismisses Layered Significance at Cherry Hill

Central Park, Central Park app alert, Central Park Conservancy, Historic Districts Council, Landmarks Preservation Commission, parks, preservation

UPDATE from the FIELDAs reported by Cristiana P. Cherry Hill Concourse, following the 1980s renovation. Thirty years ago, architect Gerald Allen, under the auspices of Peter Gluck & Associates, breathed fresh life into the Cherry Hill Concourse in Central...

Playtime in Central Park :: Work & Play

Central Park, Central Park app alert, parks, photography, playground, preservation, Upper West Side, UWS

Only at a playground is work synonymous with play!  This pair of circa 1972 photos come to us from a mother who said of her tyke and his friends, as they made like monkeys, climbing up trees: “Being a kid is their job, to have fun!”  We have the...

Playtime in Central Park :: What goes up …

Central Park, Central Park app alert, parks, photography, playground, preservation, Richard Dattner, Upper West Side, UWS

… must come down, right lil’ Charles S.?  Adventure Playground, just inside Central Park at West 67th Street, has gotten a good amount of bloglove during the photo series, and why shouldn’t it!  As architect Richard Dattner’s first...

Playtime in Central Park :: Let’s bowl!

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Show some respect–Bowls is older than your great-great-great-great-great grandparents, and then some!In Central Park, the New York Lawn Bowling Club gathers regularly to play a sport more than 5,000 years old.  Below, Club members put their skills to the...

Playtime in Central Park :: Friday Fun, Part II

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Rollerskating at the Naumburg BandshellLocated just a stone’s throw south of Bethesda Terrace is the mecca of roller and in-line skating: the Bandshell.  It seems fitting that the Park’s principal formal element–the rectilinear promenade that is...

Playtime in Central Park :: Friday Fun, Part I

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Bethesda TerraceFrom the formality of pony prancing c. 1930s (thanks again, Bruce S.!), we move on to the short-shorts and tall socks of the 1970s at Bethesda Terrace!Featuring Bethesda Terrace today is serendipitous, as the site has been at the front of our minds...
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