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Bard Breakfast 2010

Activists, Archives and Conversations with Jane: Research for the Battle for Gotham

 

Urban critic, journalist, and Landmarks Preservation Commissioner Roberta Brandes Gratz will speak at the seventh annual Bard Birthday Breakfast Benefit, to be held on December 1, 2010. Ms.

Location

The Manhattan Penthouse
80 Fifth Avenue 17th Floor
New York, NY
United States
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Event Date and Time: 
Wed, 12/01/2010 - 8:30am - 10:00am

Washington Square

Description

Before Washington Square Park was built in 1826, the area was used as a burial ground. The north side was a German cemetery, while the south side was a potter's field (a nameless burial ground). The area was later used as a public gallows and execution grounds. Between 1829 and 1833, a row of houses was built along the north side of the square. These Greek Revival style houses, built of red brick in a Flemish bond, became known as 'The Row'. The entrances are flanked by Ionic and Doric columns and have marble balustrades.

Brooklyn Battery Bridge

Location: 
Brooklyn Battery Bridge
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Sometimes listed as The Brooklyn-Battery Bridge, The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

Central Park

Location

Central Park New York City, NY
United States
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Location: 
Central Park
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Description

Central Park offers New Yorkers and visitors alike a bucolic respite that has shaped the city’s history in terms of planning and parks recreation. The origins of the park emerged as early as the 1840s, when wealthy New Yorkers traveled to Europe and visited the beautiful parks in Paris and London. When they returned home, they recognized New York City lacked these amenities1.

  • 1. Rosenzweig, Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and The People: A History of Central Park. Cornell University Press, Ithaca: 1992, p. 15.

De Salvio-Quinn Bill

Sometimes listed as Fort Clinton Bill.

Pierce Trowbridge Wetter

Biography

Pierce Trowbridge Wetter, a consulting engineer and the former Treasurer of the Greenwich Village Historical Society, lived at 24 Washington Square North for a large part of his life. He is known best for his participation in the fight against Robert Moses’ 1939 Plan for Washington Square Park and also for the lawsuit he brought against Robert Moses in Fall of 1941 to stop demolition of Castle Clinton1.

  • 1. Anthony C. Wood. Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Robert Weinberg

Sometimes listed as Robert C. Weinberg.

Biography

Robert Charles Weinberg was born December 18, 1901 in New York City. Weinberg received a B.A. from the Harvard School of Architecture in 1923 and a graduate degree in 1931 from the Harvard School of Planning1.

  • 1. The New York Times. January 26, 1974