Central Park masterminds Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux whimsically named several main park exterior openings as ‘gates’ when the park was being built in the 1860s. Running clockwise around the park…
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Located in a dead-end park path just south of the 96th Street Transverse Road just off 5th Avenue, this replica of a lifesize portrait of Danish sculptor Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen…
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Balto was a Siberian Husky who led a dogsled team carrying desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin through a blizzard to Nome, Alaska, in January 1925. A plaque below Balto’s statue is a…
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To many observers, Huddlestone is the most remarkable ornamental arch in the park. From some angles, it resembles a natural cave. It rests on neither mortar nor metal supports and is…
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From the ForgottenBook: Climbing the Great Hill from Central Park West and 103rd Street, you follow a pathway for awhile, pass the Pool through Glen Span Arch, along a babbling…
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One of the few tangible remains of the War of 1812, in which Britain again invaded the USA and the USA invaded what became Canada, can be found in Northern…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the center of Manhattan Island, Central Park takes up 843 glorious acres of naturalistic landscape. As summer humidity sets in, the park’s…
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One of my favorite masonry or brick arches in Central Park is Willowdell, which takes East Drive over the park path connecting Literary Walk and the Balto sled dog memorial…
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I know about Thomas Gainsborough, but I pretty much know about him because of The Kinks. The portrait and landscape painter’s (1727-1788) most famous work is The Blue Boy, rendered…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Central Park is the least forgotten park in the city, but within it are numerous items that are off the public radar. One…
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When I worked at Macy’s between 2000-2004, the first year I was there, the summer of 2000, I took a lot of lunch hour time to get photos for FNY,…
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All along East Drive in Central Park, the Department of Transportation has installed light emitting diode, or LED, luminaires. I read that the plan calls for LEDs, which shine…