From Toni García’s article for El Pais:
In 1969, Arthur Tress, 85, lived on 72nd Street and Riverside Drive, two blocks from Central Park. He was 29 and working on a park project in New York City, called Open Space in the Inner City, which focused on neglected areas on the periphery. “In the 1890s, Frederick Law Olmsted built Central Park with all its lagoons and walls, but left 32 hectares to be used as a wilder area: this was the Ramble, a place where people could get lost in. It was totally artificial, with gigantic rocks and small walls, but it looked like a jungle area in the middle of the city,” Tress tells EL PAÍS.
Browse the exhibition “Arthur Tress | The Ramble” at CLAMP
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