Visit to New York City, New York
While in Central Park we saw banners doubling as wayfinding helping to orient people with the park.
Having visited from Oyster Bay, we took significant interest in the wayfinding panel urging people to visit the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall. Theodore Roosevelt’s father founded the American Museum of Natural History. In 1936 the Memorial Hall was named after Theodore Roosevelt. A renovation project began in 2010.
As President, Theodore Roosevelt created 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reservations, four national game preserves, five national parks and 18 national monuments. In total some 230 million acres were placed under federal protection.
The statue outside of the museum featured Theodore Roosevelt and was placed on an impressive podium. Years later the statue was removed.
Near Prince street we were impressed by the scale of buildings with eight floors above the ground floor.
Pedestrian activity, historic buildings, and public art blend harmoniously together in this street scene.
Postscript
A few days later we returned for the BMW Guggenheim Lab where James Howard Kunstler, the author of Geography of Nowhere, engaged in a debate with someone who had an opposing viewpoint on the impact of sprawl.