CSPAN3 History Of New York Citys Central Park June 29, 2014
Is central park was the first great civic work of art in this country. This young democracy, europeans had hoped we would fail. We did not. They said, you may succeed economically, but you will never put anything out culturally that is interesting. What do you know . We fold them. Fooled them. We put out central park. The city that put out the spark, it is a city that has grown. We had 60,000 people in a city that barely stretched from the battery down the road. That was new york in 1800. By 1860, the city had stretched up to 59th street. The already know the manhattan is going to cover the wh...
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