Celebrating the Father of American Distance Running outsideonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outsideonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NYC reburies remains of early New Yorkers in Washington Square Park 6sqft.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from 6sqft.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Historical remains found during construction reburied in NYC In this photo provided by the New York City Parks Department, Green-Wood Cemetery volunteers rebury the fragmentary remains of early New Yorkers found during construction in and around Washington Square Park, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in New York. The human remains were placed in the wooden box and buried five feet below grade within a planting bed in the park, and marked with an engraved paver. (Daniel Avila/New York City Parks Department via AP) | Photo: AP Updated: March 02, 2021 12:40 PM Created: March 02, 2021 12:34 PM
NEW YORK (AP) - Human remains of early New Yorkers that were discovered during construction in and around Washington Square Park were reinterred inside the park on Tuesday, New York City officials announced.
Gregg Bordowitz on “The Conference of the Animals”
Ulrike Müller,
The Conference of the Animals (A Mural), 2020, latex paint. Installation view, Queens Museum, New York. Photo: Hai Zhang.
I GREW UP IN QUEENS about twenty minutes from Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1964 New York World’s Fair and the home of the Queens Museum, where “The Conference of the Animals” opened last September an exhibition of a forty-five-foot wall mural by artist Ulrike Müller and of children’s drawings selected by independent curator Amy Zion. The Unisphere, an enormous steel globe visible through the glass doors and windows of the museum’s lobby, was an abiding feature of my childhood landscape, glimpsed through the windows of cars and buses and visited regularly. Conceived as an ornament of the exposition, the sphere, according to the New York City Parks Department,