New York’s Central Park
Restoring a masterpiece with Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, 1982-2011
Working With Betsy Rogers
Institution builder par excellence, her Southern grace perfectly cushioned a flinty Texan resolve. She created the Central Park Conservancy and much else. I had the pleasure of seeing her in action with a number of Parks Commissioners and Mayoral representatives.
I served on her team as the Parks' sociologist and, with the help of students and colleagues, carried out numerous surveys and countless observation's of park users.
Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir, by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Betsy discusses her 2022 collection, Writing New York:
Jane Jacobs prize 2011:
2010 Jane Jacobs Medal Award Recipient Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Photo of Betsy Rogers by Annie Liebovitz
Counting Visitors to the Gates in Central Park, February 12 through February 27, 2005.
Smarthistory – Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates
My article about the Gates:
Cristo, Jeanne-Claude, Mayor Blumberg, assorted children, Gates, February 2005.
Central Park Conservancy: The Gatess
Series of comments about the Gates, on occasion of 20th anniversary:
https://www.tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/bridging2/addonizio.html
‘Central Park Five’ to have entrance named after them in Manhattan’s largest park
Central Park, Winter by William James Glackens, c. 1905 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
