Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope. The Jazzmobile, a small pickup truck whose back has been converted into a stage, drives into a "play street" in Central Harlem. The street is closed to traffic; in its squalor the children play...
...aftermath of the Streisand concert. The crowd had left Sheep's Meadow strewn with garbage, the refuse of a festive evening--papers, beer cans, food, old bottles, and a single black miniskirit. The mess took three days to clean up. Reed charged that the landscaped beauty of Central Park was being lost in a deluge of commercial events--shows, concerts, happenings...
...trees enchanted in the hazy light. Men stroll with their wives on the Mall; lovers lie quietly in the grass; kids running twisting in the crowd; the band plays a slow waltz of the 1890's. On a warm June night 50,000 New Yorkers gather in Central Park to celebrate the good old summertime. "Look at all those people," says the Commissioner. "Isn't it exciting...
...madness, the excitement, the hope, the magic, and the toughness are all part world of the New York City Department of Parks. Three years ago Central Park at night was a sombre, haunting place; Morningside Park, which borders on Central Harlem, was called the most dangerous park in the country...
...administration's philosophy has not been without opposition. Last summer Henry Hope Reed, Curator of Central Park, attacked Heckscher, his boss, for "Commercialization" of the park...