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Posts published in “Olmsted, Frederick Law”

The Reporter Who Designed Central Park

It’s the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, who helped create one of New York’s shining jewels. Source: New York Times

Finding Refuge, and a Snowy Owl, in Central Park

When pandemic New York seemed at its most surreal, the park, with its abundant wildlife and familiar progression of the seasons, offered a vision of normal life to a book critic who wandered it daily. Source: New York Times