Tag: Olmstead

• Fifty Years Fight To Keep Central Park From Invasion

  Believe it or not, sports were not permitted in Central Park when it opened. It was a place to stroll and relax, but but not to play. The website centralparkhistory.com explains: The reasons why lay in the transformation of popular sports, particularly baseball, just at the moment the park was being built. In the 1850s…

  David Friedman

  July 9, 2010

  Development, Sports

  baseball, Central Park, Olmstead, soccer, sports, tennis, Vaux