(UPDATE: EXHIBIT EXTENDED through 9/25/15 by POPULAR DEMAND) LIVING LANDMARKS EXHIBIT CELEBRATES CITY’S SCENIC LANDMARKS

 

UPDATE: EXHIBIT EXTENDED THROUGH SEPTEMBER 25TH BY POPULAR DEMAND

 

Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP Commissioner, NYC Parks www.nyc.gov/parks

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LIVING LANDMARKS Exhibit celebrates City's scenic landmarks

 

DATE:                        June 25 – August 28, 2015

 

TIME:                          Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Closed Holidays

 

LOCATION:               The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park

                                    830 Fifth Avenue

                                    At 64^th Street and 5^th Avenue

Manhattan

 

DETAILS:                   Living Landmarks celebrates the nine individually landmarked New York City public parks in honor of the 50th anniversary of the City's landmarks law. The exhibit showcases the parks' innovative landscape designs and dynamism of the city through historical and contemporary photography, renderings, maps, artifacts, and memorabilia. The nine scenic landmarks include Bryant Park, Central Park, Fort Tryon Park, Morningside Park, Prospect Park, Riverside Park, Verdi Square, as well as Eastern and Ocean Parkways.

 

Notable objects in the show include a never before exhibited early pre-Olmsted and Vaux plan for Central Park, dating to 1856, and sculptor Isamu Noguchi and architect Louis Kahn's bronze model of an unrealized playground for Riverside Park.

 

This exhibition is FREE and open to the public. For more information, please call (212) 360-8163.

 

 

 

 

Media Contact:

Maeri Ferguson

pressoffice@parks.nyc.gov / (212) 360-1311