February 13, 2023

Quote for Today

"It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers  in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is at great cost, to those in easier circumstances."

Frederick Law Olmsted [1822-1903]

and Calvert  Vaux, [1824-1895] in the

Report submitted with 'Greensward' Plan, 

awarded first prize by the Board of

Commissioners of the Central Park

[April 28, 1858]