The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) provides Explore and discover NYC’s people with the ability to see, understand, evaluate and appreciate landscape architecture and its practitioners, landscape marvels with free tours in the way many people have learned to do with in all five boroughs, featuring some of the nation’s most buildings and architects. Through its web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and innovative landscapes spanning two centuries of design. understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide. Experience the great civic spaces of Brooklyn’s Grand Army www.tclf.org Plaza and Prospect Park, Bob Zion’s original “vest pocket park” at Manhattan’s Paley Park; Wave Hill’s majestic views of the National Partners Hudson River from the Bronx, and the unique urban design of Sunnyside Gardens in Queens. Many are places people pass daily, but do we know their background stories? What’s Out There Weekend promises to shed new light on familiar places.
What’s Out There Weekend dovetails with TCLF’s Web-based Local Partners What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive, free, online database of designed landscapes. The database offers a broad and interconnected way to discover the breadth of America’s landscape heritage, while What’s Out There Weekend gives people the opportunity to experience the landscapes they might see every day in a new way. What’s Out There
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Janice Parker October 6-7, 2012 Landscape Design 19 | Bryant Park celebrate the city with free tours Van Alen Institute • M. Paul Friedberg and Partners The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) invites you SiteWorks Landscape Architecture • Robin Key Landscape Architecture Tours are Free – Registration Required to explore and discover New York City’s remarkable Mathews Nielsen • Stantec • HM White • Mark K Morrison Landscape Architecture landscape legacy, with FREE tours led by expert guides. Nancy Owens Studio LLC • Michael van Valkenburgh Associates • OLIN tclf.org/wotw WORKSHOP: Ken Smith Landscape Architect • Deborah Nevins and Associates Quennell Rothschild & Partners, LLP • Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, PC Cover: Paley Park (Tour 16) more tours at tclf.org/wotw 4 Van Cortlandt Park 4-6pm MEET: Ground level Woodlawn station, near the stairs on the downtown/park side Thursday, October 4 GUIDE: Charles McKinney r Woodlawn: 4 train b BX16, BX34, BXM4 Launch Reception Landscape and Patronage Brooklyn at Central Park 6 | Brooklyn Botanic Garden 6:30-8:30pm | Tickets required 5 Grand Army Plaza 9-10:30am Hosted by Central Park Conservancy MEET: Southeast corner of Flatbush Ave at Plaza St, close to the newsstand at El Museo del Barrio New York GUIDE: Matthew Postal Manhattan r Grand Army Plaza: 2, 3 train b B41, B69 10 Central Park - Lake and Ramble 9:30-11am Friday, October 5 6 Brooklyn Botanic Garden 10-1:30am MEET: Bethesda Terrace, located mid-park, near 72nd St MEET: Visitors Center at 990 Washington Ave GUIDE: Central Park Conservancy Conference GUIDE: BBG tour guides r W 72 St: B, C train; E 77 St: 6 train b M1, M2, M3, M4, M10, M72 Stewardship of Central r Eastern Pkwy: 2, 3 train; Franklin Av: 4, 5 train; Botanic Garden: S train b B16, B41, B43 11 Central Park - Children’s District 11:30am-1pm Park’s Woodlands MEET: The Dairy Visitor Center and Gift Shop, mid-park south of 65th St 8am-5pm | Registration required 7 Prospect Park - Long Meadow & Ravine GUIDE: Central Park Conservancy Co-sponsored with Central Park Conservancy r 5 Av/59 St: N, Q, R train; 59 St/Columbus Circle: A, B, C ,D train at Museum of the City of New York 11am-12:30pm b MEET: Park Entrance at Grand Army Plaza M1, M2, M3, M4, M10, M72 GUIDE: Christian Zimmerman 22 Saturday, October 6 r Grand Army Plaza: 2, 3 train b B41, B69 Battery Park City parks10am-Noon MEET: Overlook at Nelson Rockefeller Park, intersection with Chambers St 8 Prospect Park - Lakeside 1-2:30pm GUIDE: Tessa Huxley Bronx r MEET: Park Entrance at Lincoln Rd and Ocean Ave Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall: 4, 5, R train; Chambers St: 1, 2, 3, E train b M20 1 Wave Hill 9:30-11am GUIDE: Christian Zimmerman r Prospect Park: B, Q, S train b BX68, BX16 MEET: Perkins Visitor Center at Wave Hill 13 East Village Community Gardens 1-3pm GUIDE: Laurel Rimmer 9 Green-Wood Cemetery 3:30-5pm MEET: Liz Christy Community Garden, Entrance Gate on Bowery at E Houston St r Metro-North: Hudson Line to Riverdale; W 242 St: 1 train; W207 St: A train GUIDE: Steve Frillman, Donald Loggins b MEET: Gothic Arch Entrance at 25th St at Fifth Ave BX1, BX9, BX12 and BX7, BX10 Shuttle available from train stations r b GUIDE: Art Presson Bleeker St: 6 train; 2 Av: F train M21, M103
2 New York Botanical Garden 11:30am-1pm r 25th St: R train b B63 14 Riverside Park 10:30am-Noon MEET: Leon Levy Visitor Center, near the ticketing windows MEET: Soldiers’ and Sailors Monument at West 89th Street and Riverside Drive GUIDE: Wayne Cahilly GUIDE: Margaret Bracken r Metro-North: Harlem Line to Botanical Garden; Bedford Park Blvd: 4, B, D train r 86 St: 1 train; 96 St: 1, 2, 3 train b M5 b BX19, BX26 15 General Grant National Memorial 1-2pm 3 Woodlawn Cemetery 2-3:30pm MEET: Base of the Memorial, 122nd St and Riverside Dr MEET: Cemetery entrance on Jerome Ave at Bainbridge Ave GUIDE: Steve Laise GUIDE: Andrew Dolkart r 125 St: 1 train b M4, M5, M104 r Woodlawn: 4 train b BX16, BX34, BXM4 7 | Prospect Park Ravine more tours at tclf.org/wotw 22 Central Park - Harlem Meer and North Woods 3:30-5pm Sunday, October 7 MEET: Dana Discovery Center (W 110th b/t Fifth Ave and Lenox Ave) GUIDE: Central Park Conservancy r b Manhattan Lenox Av/110 St: 2, 3 train; E 110: 6 train M106 Queens 16 Midtown Modernism 10:30am-12:30pm MoMA Garden, Paley Park, Greenacre Park, 23 Sunnyside Gardens 10-11:30am and IBM Headquarters Atrium MEET: Sunnyside Arch on 46th St at Queens Blvd, by the 46 St Station MEET: Entrance to MoMA 11 West 53rd Street GUIDE: Daniel Allen GUIDE: Donald Richardson and Ken Smith r 46 St: 7 train b Q32, Q60 r 5 Av/53 St: E, M train; 7 Av: B, D, E train b X1, X7, X9, M1, M7; 5 Av lines 24 Flushing Meadows/World’s Fair 1-2:30pm MEET: Unisphere (globe) at the World’s Fair site 17 Bryant Park 2-3pm GUIDE: Nicholas Quennell and Meira Berkower 24 | World’s Fair b MEET: Bryant Monument on the back side of the New York Public Library r Mets-Willets Point-Port Washington: 7 train Q58 GUIDE: Maureen Hackett r Grand Central trains; 5 Av: 7 train b 5 Av lines 25 Noguchi Museum 2-3pm MEET: Noguchi Museum entrance GUIDE: Noguchi Museum staff 18 Fort Tryon Park r Broadway: N, Q train b Q103, Q104; or Sunday Noguchi shuttle SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO r 190 St: A train; Dyckman St: 1 train 26 Forest Hills Gardens 3:30-5pm b BX7, M100, M4 MEET: Station Square, near Forest Hills LIRR & Subway stations GUIDE: Susanna Hof 19 Cloisters 1-2 pm r LIRR to Forest Hills; Forest Hills - 71 Av: E, F, M, R train b MEET: Cloisters Main Hall Q23, Q60, QM18 GUIDE: Deirdre Larkin r 190 St: A train; Dyckman St: 1 train 16 | Greenacre Park b BX7, M100, M4 Also going on... 20 Historic Harlem Parks 10am-Noon Morningside Park, Marcus Garvey Park October 6-7 The Historic House Trust is hosting its annual Food MEET: Columbia University entrance gates on Broadway, by 116 St-Columbia University subway entrance Festival. Visit the following HHT properties while you are 26 | Forest Hills Gardens GUIDE: Janelle Farris and Peter Rothschild out on What’s Out There Weekend tours: r 116 St/Columbia University: 1 train b M4, M60, M104 • Lefferts Historic House (near Prospect Park) Staten Island • Van Cortlandt Mansion (near Van Cortlandt Park) 21 Central Park - Conservatory Garden 2-3pm • Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (near Van Cortlandt Park) 74˚20'0" 74˚10'0" 74˚0'0" 73˚50'0" 73˚40'0" 27 y MEET: Vanderbilt Gates on Fifth Ave at 105th St Snug Harbor Tours on the hour, Noon-4pm • Alice Austen House Museum (on Staten Island) North
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