New York City- classic or dud?

Yea, I haven't seen that much of central park, but its a fucking frisbee golf course compared to the places I went back home to ride my bike / take walks.

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, April 14, 2008 9:56 AM (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

omg yah central park isnt anything compared to the colorado rockies either - oh wait what theyre not the same thing? omg

central park is easily the most brilliantly landscaped place ive ever been. id even put it ahead of the great japanese gardens for its pragmatic utility - you never see biz markie preforming in a japanese garden. theres like 20 distinct aesthetic environments flowing seamlessly into each other.

its a masterwork that you can walk through and even play frisbee golf in if you like.

Honestly, I've never been to Central Park way uptown. You know, where they filmed all those early 90s movies they show on BET.

Hands up who's been north of the Jackie O Reservoir?

it contains and is surrounded by some of the worlds great museums. its got the alice in wonderland statue and a carousel. if all the people are bugging you out you can go hide in the ramble. shit a lot of people even live there.

i have been everywhere in cp

can anyone recommend a good bio of olmstead?

Ed, you are clearly winter-crazed and will only come to your senses when bathed in the reflected glare of July sun off hot sand and lapping waves.

Parks have shady trees for me to sit under.

central park is pretty dope, but on a nice day on the weekend it gets absolutely crazy crowded with people. i have the same (minor) quibble abt Prospect Park, but it doesn't fill up quite to the same degree. Also, I prefer Prospect Park because it is a 5 minute walk from my apartment and has a zoo. also designed by olmstead, IIRC.

also, i am with ed on parks being way better than beaches. if you were a dog, you could go to the doggie beach at prospect park!

You paleskins can stay in the park, then. It'll keep you off the shore-bound highways!

word is Olmstead felt Prospect Park was superior to Central Park.

You may also want to visit Forest Park in Queens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Park_%28Queens%29

It's more of a forest than the other two parks.

ian, Central Park has a zoo too. it has polar bears.

i DO totally want to go to forest park.

i'd also like to let u guys all know that there are FLOWERS blooming on the tree outside my window for the first time this season.

but it's not a zoo i can walk to!
and does it have red pandas?

central park zoo is way better than prospect park zoo fyi ian - i do got mad love for prospect park tho

word is Olmstead felt Prospect Park was superior to Central Park.

yes, Olmsted did, and he isn't alone

yah it has red pandas and penguins <3 <3 <3

central park is way more formal and dynamic - prospect park is more natural

central park is way better maintained - which is kinda fuckd up

what ian zaid (tho I have never been to the PP zoo)

bikes around prospect park = :)

cutty? is that you?

can anyone recommend a good bio of olmstead?

http://www.amazon.com/Clearing-Distance-Frederick-Olmsted-America/dp/0684865750

Olmstead landscaped my high school (!)

you wanna know about central park, you read this

guys, there's no A in olmsted

its so crazy how every park in boston and new york is designed by that guy

My friend starts as a PP Zoo docent this spring! I will go to see her handle snakes & kiss the kissing pygmy goat.

SHEEP SHEARING, MAY 3 AND 4. C U THERE, IAN.

also Rock Creek Park in DC.

xp: reminds me. what ever happened to fact checking cuz?

is that hands-on civilian sheep shearing?

Sheep shearing?

they don't do it themselves, ed.

fact checkin cuz still posts on ILM i think. as factcheckr

is he tremendoid?

Doing it in the park
Doing it after dark
Ooh yeah
Rock Creek Park
Ooh yeah
Rock Creek Park:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-UxdI0jh8Uk

can anyone recommend a good bio of olmstead?

http://www.amazon.com/Clearing-Distance-Frederick-Olmsted-America/dp/0684865750

-- Mr. Que, Monday, April 14, 2008 3:06 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

so this is good que? that's the one google came up with for me but it looks like it might be super boring.

I never knew of that Blackbyrds song, and I am psyched to learn of its existence

^^^

hey bell labs i haven't actually read that book but that's the only one I know of about olmsted. i remember when it came out, i was working in a bookstore, and it got a lot of attention here's an interview w/the author:

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba990714.htm

maybe borrow from a library instead of buying a copy and if it sucks you haven't wasted any $$

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/mytown-newyork.html?c=y&page=2

whoops, that should have started with page 1

florent to reopen with same menu, same staff - but without Flo

http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/meatpacking-cooked

Nobody here ever answered me about whether or not Howe meant what I suspected he meant.

I would ask him personally, but he's all dead and stuff.

recap

Rangel, Rangel, Rangel.

http://ventriloquismnyc.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/welcoming-the-age-of-yupres-young-urban-pre-professionals/

A thing that always gets on my nerves here: stuff that is really good always has wait times/reservation difficulties that are disproportional to how much better the thing is. So you have to wait 2.5 hours to eat the best brunch in NYC and thus kill a lot of the point of brunch which is to spend your Sunday in a leisurely way. Or you settle for any old brunch. I prefer the second option but I hate how you never even get the chance to do the really good things if you don't want to wait in endless lines or go at weird-ass times.

Suspect part of the problem is the elevation of some stuff to "really good" status in the first place. It's like, how "special" does brunch really need to be?? In a smaller city/town, there might only be a few places or one or two places in each neighborhood, that were, like, famous for brunch. You would just go there. There might still be a long line, though, and then what?

At least here you can just go somewhere "adequate" if the other conditions are unacceptable.