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I would really love it if they took this a step further. Instead of buying a big block that can become a massive park like Central Park in NYC or Golden Gate Pa

I would really love it if they took this a step further. Instead of buying a big block that can become a massive park like Central Park in NYC or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. It would be more interesting if they created a "graph" of park nodes linked by park edges so that there isn't a separation between the two. For an example of what such a project could look like check out this proposal for the city of São Paulo called Ecos na Paisagem: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12588351@N02/sets/72157623192662899/show http://www.flickr.com/photos/12588351@N02/sets/7215762319266... Additionally, Park Avenue was on e an example of this when it used to be a park that stretched from Central Park to Battery Park: http://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2011/05/27/old-new-york-in-photos-4/ http://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2011/05/27/old-new-york-in-...

justincormack 13y ago
Park Avenue is interesting but I would like to see a picture not one saying "this is not it".
- malandrew 13y ago
  It's remarkably hard to find images of what it used to look like. I've seen some before. Here's what one section looked like in the 1870s when the railroad run underneath it: http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/f1.jpg http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05... Here's park avenue in the 1920s: http://screencast.com/t/7GRMhOzq http://screencast.com/t/7GRMhOzq Park Avenue (used to be 4th Avenue) has probably changed more than most Avenues in NYC. Here are some images of when railroads ran down it. http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/three-views-of-park-avenue-in-the-east-50s/ http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/three-views... You may also enjoy seeing these photos of the NYC mansions from back in the day: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/02/09/looking_back_at_manhattans_lost_gilded_age_mansions.php http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/02/09/looking_back_at_man...

justincormack 13y ago

Park Avenue is interesting but I would like to see a picture not one saying "this is not it".

malandrew 13y ago
It's remarkably hard to find images of what it used to look like. I've seen some before. Here's what one section looked like in the 1870s when the railroad run underneath it: http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/f1.jpg http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05... Here's park avenue in the 1920s: http://screencast.com/t/7GRMhOzq http://screencast.com/t/7GRMhOzq Park Avenue (used to be 4th Avenue) has probably changed more than most Avenues in NYC. Here are some images of when railroads ran down it. http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/three-views-of-park-avenue-in-the-east-50s/ http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/three-views... You may also enjoy seeing these photos of the NYC mansions from back in the day: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/02/09/looking_back_at_manhattans_lost_gilded_age_mansions.php http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/02/09/looking_back_at_man...