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What’s Out There New York City www.tclf.org 1 New York City Dear What’s Out There Weekend Visitor, Welcome to What’s Out There Weekend! The materials in this guide will tell you about the history and design of the places you can tour during this exciting event, the fifth in a series which we offer each year in cities throughout the United States. We also hope you will keep it as a reference for future explorations in New York City’s unrivaled legacy of significant landscapes. On October 6 and 7, 2012, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) will host What’s Out There Weekend, providing residents and visitors opportunities to discover and explore more than two-dozen of the city’s publicly accessible sites through free, expert-led tours. New York’s five boroughs include some of the nation’s most diverse landscapes spanning two centuries of design: great civic spaces including Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park; Bob Zion’s original “vest pocket park” at Manhattan’s Paley Park; the innovative urban design of Sunnyside Gardens in Queens; and in the Bronx, Wave Hill’s majestic views of the Hudson River and Woodlawn Cemetery’s unmatched romance and remarkable memorials designed by some of the nation’s pioneering architects and landscape architects. The goal of What’s Out There Weekend is to tell the fascinating stories of New York City’s shared landscape heritage. The tours will reveal the design history of these valued places, which are often hidden in plain sight, and the individuals who designed them, along with insights about city shaping and landscape architecture. What’s Out There Weekend covers a sampling of the sites found in the The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) Web-based What’s Out There, the most comprehensive searchable database TCLF provides the tools to see, understand and value landscape architecture and of the nation’s historic designed landscapes. The database offers a broad and its practitioners in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and interconnected way to discover the breadth of our landscape legacy, while their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF What’s Out There Weekend gives people the opportunity to experience the landscapes they see every day in a new way. broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. On behalf of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, I thank you for participating in What’s Out There Weekend, and hope you enjoy the tours. On Our Cover - The cave inlet at Central Park’s Ramble Sincerely, Above - Wave Hill’s Aquatic Garden, photo by Marion Brenner Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION 2 The Cultural Landscape Foundation www.tclf.org 3 74˚20'0" 74˚10'0" 74˚0'0" 73˚50'0" 73˚40'0" y North Lake Valhalla Cooper Pond Ave 9W Pom 95 Pfisters Pond 287 pt Main St Cross County Pk on Boston Post Rd 87 Ri Tibbetts Lake Boonton Tpke ve y r Alfano Island Ave Hutchinson River Pky r Hillview e Ave Main Rd iv Lincoln Reservoir R Wilsons Woods Lake x n o r B Bronx River Pk S Washington 80 Passaic River Main St Long Isl and Sound 80 3 Jerome 46 Site List by 46Borough Av 80 Palisades Interstate Pky e Glen Garden State Pky Davids 4 Island Bronx Brooklyn 2 Island r Great Notch Reservoir e Mosholu Pky iv Henry Hudson Pky Ro R ck Essex County 1. New York LexingtonBotanical Garden 5. 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