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nyc - misc buildings 2020 19

This handsome circular, Classical plaza, ringed by arcades, is actually a piece of transportation infrastructure - a roundabout linking 79th Street with southbound car traffic on the Henry Hudson Parkway, and bicycle traffic on the Hudson River Greenway. This is best understood from the satellite view. If there must be urban highways, and they must have off-ramps, this is some kind of model to consider.

Part of the huge West Side Improvement/Henry Hudson Parkway project, initiated in 1929, moribund in the early Depression years, and completed 1934-1937 under Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks. The official opening brochure gives design credit to the engineering consultancy Madigan-Hyland, as well as consulting landscape architects Gilmore D. Clarke (Clarke & Rapuano) and C.J. Beakes, together with the Department of Parks staff members Emil H. Praeger (Chief Engineer) and Clinton F. Loyd (Chief, Architectural Design).

Taken on: September 12, 2020

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