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Celebrating Community at Amsterdam Houses Family Day
REPORT from the FIELDBy intern Kate G. This past Saturday, August 15, proved to be a beautiful day for Amsterdam Houses' annual celebration of family and fun: Family Day 2011! Neighbors mingled and danced to the festive music, kids enthusiastically lined up for...
Playtime in Central Park :: Row, row, row your boat
If it weren't for the outline of the distinguished Beresford Apartments on the horizon, you'd swear this photo was snapped in the wilds of upstate New York! LW's Cristiana Peña and intern Kate Gilmore snapped this photo, of boaters gliding across The Lake, on...
Design Commission Dismisses Layered Significance at Cherry Hill
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
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 same mantra...
Playtime in Central Park :: What goes up …
... 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 adventure-style...
JOIN US! Celebrate Community this Saturday at Amsterdam Houses, West 64th St.
Gather your crew; organize your tribe; rally your club. Saturday is all about FAMILY!Come together at Amsterdam Houses to celebrate the spirit of community with residents and neighbors at this year's Family Day celebration! LW! will be there (fourth year...
Playtime in Central Park :: Let’s bowl!
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
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 The Mall and...
Playtime in Central Park :: Friday Fun, Part I
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...
Playtime in Central Park :: Wanna go for a ride?
Rachel H., you've been bested. Little Lila and Isabella, while your lakeside hideaway is enviable, the cuteness factor here is just undeniable.It's refreshing to know that even as technology advances and child's play looks more and more like a feat of...
