Book Review: Barbara Paul Robinson recommends new volumes for green thumbs
Few remember that in the 1960s and ’70s Central Park was a lawless, derelict, graffiti-covered no-man’s land, shunned by most New Yorkers as being far too dangerous and scary to enter.
In her forthright and fascinating “Saving Central Park” , Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, founder and spearhead of the Central Park Conservancy, recounts the story of how she, as a recent Wellesley graduate with an advanced degree in urban planning, settled in Manhattan in 1964, fell in love with the city’s “masterpiece of landscape design,” and soon burned with a passion to reclaim it for all New Yorkers. Passages quoted...
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