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Introduction
Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters
International House
Riverside Church
Museum of the City of New York
The Asia Society
The Rockefeller University
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
United Nations
Greenacre Park
Museum of Modern Art
Rockefeller Center
Judson Memorial Church and Judson Hall
Chase Manhattan Plaza
26 Broadway, Former Headquarters of the Standard Oil Company
About the Authors
Rockefeller New York

A tour by Henry Hope Reed
Photographs by Esther Bubley

GREENACRE PARK

217 East 51st Street

Greenacre Park, a rare oasis in midtown, is one of two privately endowed parks in the city, the other being Paley Park on East 53rd Street.

The Greenacre lot is 100 by 63.6 feet. It is divided into three levels, one level being a raised terrace on the west, a second sunken at the back, and the third, or main one, a few feet above the sidewalk. The walls are of granite with the east wall in blocks given a rockface ashlar. The trees are honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthus; the shrubs are chiefly rhododendron to be found on the lower terrace. In addition, shrubs and flowers are set out in tubs according to season.

The chief feature of the park is a 25-foot high waterfall at the rear. The splashing of water is very much part of the park. Not to be overlooked is the convenient snackbar.

Greenacre Park, opened in 1971, is the work of Hideo Sasaki of Sasaki, Dawson, De May Associates with Harmon Goldstone, consultant.

Abby Rockefeller Mauze, 1903-1976, the oldest of John D. Jr.'s six children, was the donor. Her most active philanthropy, other than this park, was the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

The tour continues west on 51st Street, turns north on Madison Avenue to get west on 53rd. Here it passes Paley Park and St. Thomas Church to stop at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street.

Midday in Greenacre Park.


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