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The central block in 2008
The Arsenal in 1911, at rear
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The Arsenal is a symmetrical brick building with modestly Gothic Revival details, located in Central Park in New York City adjacent to the Central Park Zoo. It is centered on 64th Street west of Fifth Avenue. Built between 1847 and 1851 as a storehouse for arms and ammunition for the New York State Militia, the building is the second-oldest extant structure within Central Park (behind Blockhouse No. 1), predating the park's construction.

The building currently houses the offices of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, City Parks Foundation, Historic House Trust, and the nearby Central Park Zoo as well as an art gallery known as the Arsenal Gallery, but it has also served as a zoo, a police precinct and a weather bureau and housed the American Museum of Natural History's collections while the museum's permanent structure was being erected.

Architecture

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The Arsenal was designed by Martin E. Thompson.[1]

Facade

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Originally, the facade was a light color; an 1857 New York Times article described the facade as being "painted in imitation of granite",[2] while the same paper said in 1922 that the building was clad with gray brick.[3] On either side of the main stairway is a balustrade supported by ten vertical cast-iron rifles.[4] The doorway is flanked by crossed swords, halberds, and spears.[4] The panel above the door is decorated with a bald eagle displayed between stacks of cannonballs.[3][4] A commemorative plaque was placed over the main doorway of the building, with the names of various officials who were involved in the building's construction.[5] The windows on either side of the entrance were long and narrow, like those of a jail.[3]

Thompson's symmetrical structure of brick in English bond, with headers every fifth course, presents a central block in the manner of a fortified gatehouse flanked by half-octagonal towers.

Features

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The first floor contains floor-to-ceiling murals by Allen Saalburg, which combine historical vignettes of 19th-century New York life with ornamental scrolls and arabesques.[6][7][8] The murals are installed on the walls of the lobby, measuring 20 feet (6.1 m) tall and 25 by 40 feet (7.6 by 12.2 m) across.[9] There are three murals in total: the mural on the wall opposite the main doorway measures 40 by 20 feet (12.2 by 6.1 m), while the murals on either side wall measure 23 by 17 feet (7.0 by 5.2 m).[10] The mural to the right of the main doorway depicts Central Park during the American Civil War, and the mural to the left depicts the Arsenal and various military icons. The wall opposite the main doorway is painted in a brown and gold color scheme, with scenes of historical buildings.[7]

The building has an especially strong frame because it was originally constructed as a munitions storehouse; the walls on the first floor are more than 3 feet (0.91 m) thick.[11]

The "Greensward Plan", the original plan for Central Park, is stored on the third floor.[12]

Early history

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Military use

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The Arsenal was originally constructed as an ordnance storehouse for the New York State Militia. When the building was developed in the mid-19th century, the center of New York City was located several miles south, near Houston Street; it is unknown why the Arsenal was developed so far away.[2] The New York state government laid the cornerstone for the Arsenal on July 4, 1847.[13] In April 1848, the New York state legislature authorized the construction of a new arsenal in New York City at a cost of $15,000 (equivalent to $528,000 in 2023).[14] Work on the Arsenal commenced the same year,[15] and the building was completed in 1851.[2][15] A 1924 New York Times article noted that the building cost $30,000 to develop (equivalent to $1,099,000 in 2023).[11] The arsenal occupied a 10-acre (4.0 ha) site that was shared with a powder magazine.[16]

When plans for Central Park were finalized in 1856, the New York state government bought the site for $275,000 (equivalent to $9,326,000 in 2023).[16][17] In 1857, New York City mayor Fernando Wood asked that the arsenal be integrated into the park around it.[18] The arsenal and the land around it were incorporated into the park.[16] During the American Civil War, in 1861, the Arsenal was used as troops' barracks, and it was also used to muster out troops returning from the front lines. The common in front of the building became a parade ground.[16]

Use as menagerie

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A zoo was not part of the original Greensward Plan for Central Park.[19][20]: 340  However a menagerie near the Arsenal spontaneously evolved from gifts of exotic pets and other animals informally given to the park; this was a precursor to the Central Park Zoo.[19][20]: 343 [21] The first animal was left in Central Park;[22] soon, people began donating other animals.[21] Some animals were moved to the Arsenal in 1865, and larger animals grazed there during summers.[19] The first permanent menagerie building was constructed behind the Arsenal in 1875.[23]

American Museum of Natural History

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New York governor John Thompson Hoffman signed legislation creating the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) on April 6, 1869.[24][25] The chairman of the AMNH's executive committee asked Central Park commissioner Andrew Haswell Green if the museum could use the top two stories of the Arsenal, and Green approved the request in January 1870.[25] Insect specimens were placed on the lower level of the Arsenal,[26] while stones, fossils, mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles were placed on the upper level.[27] The museum opened within the Arsenal on May 22, 1871.[27][28] The Arsenal had 856,773 visitors in the first nine months of 1876 alone, more than the British Museum had recorded for all of 1874.[29] The old exhibits were removed from the Arsenal in 1878, the year after the AMNH opened its own building across Central Park.[30]

20th century to present

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Demolition efforts

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The United States Weather Bureau considered using the Arsenal as a weather observation station during 1911.[31] By then, Manhattan's parks commissioner Charles Stover described the building as a "fire trap" and was advocating to replace the building.[32] The industrialist Henry Clay Frick, who owned the nearby Lenox Library building, offered to replace the Arsenal with the library building in May 1912.[33][34] The Municipal Art Commission approved the plan that June,[35][36] despite protests from numerous civic and social groups.[37] Frick withdrew his offer the same month, citing opposition.[38] The Weather Bureau began studying the feasibility of relocating to Belvedere Castle in 1913.[39]

After the Manhattan Municipal Building was finished in 1914, the Manhattan Parks Department applied for space in that building.[40] The Parks Department moved out during May 1914;[41][42] the department estimated that it had spent $16,000 to $18,000 annually on the Arsenal's upkeep.[43] After the Parks Department moved out, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society contemplated using the Arsenal as the headquarters of the National Academy of Design.[44][45] Members of the public opposed the conversion of city-owned property to private use,[46] and parks commissioner Cabot Ward did not want any building on the Arsenal's site.[47] Ward stated in March 1915 that the Arsenal would be shortly demolished;[48][49] he told The New York Times that "nothing historic is in any way associated with the Arsenal Building".[49] This would have required relocating the Arsenal's New York City Police Department offices to the park's sheepfold and the weather station to Belvedere Castle.[50][48] There were difficulties in relocating the weather station, since the Arsenal housed half a century's worth of weather records,[16] but the Weather Service ultimately agreed in February 1918 to move to Belvedere Castle.[51]

The American Institute of Safety proposed using the Arsenal as an exhibition space in June 1918,[52] and the New York City Board of Estimate recommended that the lease be granted.[53][54] Mayor John Francis Hylan agreed to lease the Arsenal if the organization spent about $100,000 on restoration and if the Manhattan park commissioner had control over all exhibits.[55] The Park and Playgrounds Association opposed the plan,[56] and the Society of American Officers wanted the Arsenal so they could display their own artifacts.[57] The city approved the Institute of Safety's plans for the building in April 1919,[58][59] and renovations began the next month.[60] The Park and Playgrounds Association unsuccessfully asked the New York Supreme Court to place an injunction against the institute in mid-1919,[61][62] but the New York Court of Appeals reversed the Supreme Court's decision in June 1920, banning the Safety Institute from using the Arsenal.[63]

In early 1922, Manhattan park commissioner Francis D. Gallatin requested that the New York City Board of Aldermen issue $75,000 in bonds to fund a restoration of the Arsenal.[64] By then, the New York Times described the Arsenal as a "near-ruin".[3] Gallatin wanted to move the Weather Bureau back to the Arsenal after the renovation,[65] but many local residents opposed both the Arsenal's restoration and the weather station's relocation.[66]

NYC Parks use

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1920s to 1950s

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In 1924, NYC Parks decided to renovate the Arsenal for $185,000 (equivalent to $3,289,000 in 2023).[50][11] The project was completed that year, when the Manhattan Department of Parks moved back in.[50] The southern half of the first floor housed the Parks Department's forestry and engineering divisions, while the northern half contained the NYPD's 22nd Precinct. The accounts, purchase, and personnel divisions and the chief clerk occupied the second floor, while divisional heads and executive engineers worked on the third and fourth stories.[67] The basement was converted to a garage in 1927,[68] and part of the second floor was furnished at the end of 1928.[69] A marble tablet, commemorating the building's previous use as the American Museum of Natural History's first building, was installed outside the Arsenal in 1929.[70] The Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs proposed demolishing the Arsenal as part of a 1931 plan for improving Central Park,[71][72] but Manhattan's parks commissioner Walter R. Herrick opposed the plan because the Arsenal's central location was ideal as the Parks Department's headquarters.[73][74]

The Manhattan Department of Parks became part of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks) in 1934.[2][50] The same year, the Parks Department announced plans to restore the Arsenal to its original design.[75] Conical roofs on eight turrets were replaced with crenellated parapets, and the exterior was sandblasted.[75][17] Over 60 landscape architects and around 70 tradesmen and architects worked on the renovation.[75] According to later NYC Parks commissioner Adrian Benepe, the architect Aymar Embury II likely designed the decorations around the Arsenal's front doorway around this time.[2] The Central Park Zoo to the west was built around the same time; the Arsenal formed the eastern leg of the zoo's central "square".[17][76] As part of a Works Progress Administration program, Allen Saalburg received a contract to paint murals for the lobby in January 1935;[9] work on the murals began that May,[8] and they were installed the next year.[7]

The NYPD's 22nd Precinct moved from the Arsenal in 1936 after a new precinct house was built on the park's 86th Street transverse road.[67][77] Afterward, NYC Parks had exclusive use of the Arsenal. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia had a temporary "retreat" at the Arsenal in 1939, where no one could visit him, in contrast to his office at New York City Hall.[78] NYC Parks also began decorating the building during the Christmas holiday season.[2] The department's website wrote that "over time the Arsenal has become a parks fixture".[50]

1960s and later

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The building currently houses the offices of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, City Parks Foundation, Historic House Trust, and the nearby Central Park Zoo as well as an art gallery known as the Arsenal Gallery[2][79]

Critical reception

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When the Arsenal was first constructed, its architecture was not well received.[2] Over the late 19th and early 20th century, wealthy Fifth Avenue residents had developed negative sentiments toward the Arsenal and neighboring menagerie.[16] A book from 1899 referred to the edifice as "a flimsy structure of vulgarized Norman architecture".[2]

See also

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ The Arsenal (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. October 12, 1967. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Gray, Christopher (November 18, 2007). "From Armory to Zoo to Museum to Offices". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 3, 2019. Retrieved May 3, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d Harvier, Ernest (March 19, 1922). "Park's Arsenal Now a Near-ruin; History of the Building Which Was Once a Monument to the Pride of the State". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Gayle, Margot (1974). Cast-iron Architecture in New York: A Photographic Survey. Dover books on architecture. Dover Publications. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-486-22980-5. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  5. ^ American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society 1914, pp. 165–166.
  6. ^ Crowther, Prudence. "When the Delay is the Gratification: Allen Saalburg," Art in Print Vol. 7, No. 4 (November-December 2017), p. 31.
  7. ^ a b c "Scenes of Arsenal's First Years Deck Murals in Entrance Way: Dashing Horsemen, Love-Smitten Swains Caper and Stroll in Paintings Being Installed After Three-Month, W. P. A. Labors Central Park Arsenal Murals to Depict Fashions and Costumes of 1850". New York Herald Tribune. May 8, 1936. p. 21. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1237477653.
  8. ^ a b "Artists Start Murals in Park To Relieve Mall's Somber Aspect; Relief Workers Begin Two-Month Project at Bridge Arcade and Restaurant -- Elephants Quaffing Beer to Be Seen in Canvas Designed for Park Zoo". The New York Times. August 3, 1935. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
  9. ^ a b "City Parks to Get New Artistic Tone; 21 Work Relief Artists to Be Put on Job of Creating More Mural Paintings". The New York Times. January 18, 1935. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
  10. ^ "Animal Cabaret Picture Will Soon Hang in Zoo: Relief Artists Finishing Central Park Cafeteria Mural". New York Herald Tribune. August 3, 1935. p. 26. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1244000006.
  11. ^ a b c "Central Park Will Retain Old Arsenal; Reconstruction of Sturdy Walls Recalls History of Famous Fort in City's Midst". The New York Times. September 28, 1924. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  12. ^ Plitt, Amy (August 1, 2017). "20 hidden gems of Central Park". Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  13. ^ Clark, Emmons (1890). History of the Seventh Regiment of New York, 1806-1889. Civil War unit histories: Union -- Mid-Atlantic. Seventh Regiment. p. 329. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  14. ^ "State Arsenal". New-York Tribune. April 12, 1848. p. 2. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 570034378.
  15. ^ a b American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society 1914, p. 165.
  16. ^ a b c d e f "Problem in Razing of the Old Arsenal; Weather Observatory in Building Needed by City and Local Federal Bureau". The New York Times. April 4, 1915. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  17. ^ a b c 1934 New York City Department of Public Parks Budget Request and Annual Report (PDF) (Report). New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. 1934. p. 155. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  18. ^ "Affairs of the City". New York Daily Herald. May 20, 1857. p. 2. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
  19. ^ a b c "CentralParkHistory.com". CentralParkHistory.com. December 24, 1999. Archived from the original on October 19, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  20. ^ a b Rosenzweig, Roy & Blackmar, Elizabeth (1992). The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-9751-5.
  21. ^ a b Newman, Andy (June 15, 2014). "Giving Life to Central Park Zoo, One Donation at a Time". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 1, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  22. ^ "Bergson Says World Needs A New System Of Ethics; If We Knew Our Duty We Would Do It, But We Don't, According to the Famous French Philosopher, Who Will Soon Be With Us --- All Systems Incomplete --- Philosophers Rule Mankind". The New York Times. March 10, 1912. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 1, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  23. ^ "Park Planning for Greater New York (1870–1898) : Online Historic Tour". New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Archived from the original on May 1, 2019. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  24. ^ "Timeline: The History of the American Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved February 18, 2009.
  25. ^ a b Davey, Colin (2019). The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way: With a New Preface by the Author and a New Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Fordham University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8232-8707-9.
  26. ^ "Natural History Museum in New York". Hearth and Home. Vol. 3, no. 18. May 6, 1871. p. 342. ProQuest 88750696.
  27. ^ a b "Home News: the Weather Prominent Arrivals Departures New-York City Brooklyn Westchester County Long Island Staten Island New-Jersey Lectures, Meetings, Etc Haps and Mishaps". New-York Tribune. May 23, 1871. p. 8. ProQuest 572448008.
  28. ^ "Opening of the Museum of Natural History at Central Park". The New York Times. May 23, 1871. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 13, 2022.
  29. ^ Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1999). New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. Monacelli Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-58093-027-7. OCLC 40698653.
  30. ^ "Completed". The Standard Union. August 6, 1892. p. 4. Retrieved September 21, 2023.
  31. ^ "Weather Man in the Park: Chief City Meteorological Station May Be Established at the Arsenal". The New York Times. December 7, 1911. p. 10. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 97112937.
  32. ^ "For New Park Home: Arsenal Building Called "Fire Trap" by Commissioner Stover". New-York Tribune. December 28, 1911. p. 14. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 574852566.
  33. ^ "Frick Offers City the Lenox Library; Pittsburgher Who Bought Its Site Would Re-erect Noted Building in Central Park". The New York Times. May 29, 1912. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  34. ^ "Offers Lenox Library Building Free to City: H. C. Frick Would Tear It Down and Re-erect It on Site of Arsenal in Park". New-York Tribune. May 29, 1912. p. 3. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 574922514.
  35. ^ "Art Commission Lets in the Library; Gives Consent to Stover's Plan to Put Frick's Gift in Central Park". The New York Times. June 12, 1912. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  36. ^ "To Preserve Building: Municipal Art Commission Approves Offer of Lenox Library". New-York Tribune. June 12, 1912. p. 7. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 574938962.
  37. ^ "Unite to Protect Every Inch of Park; Playgrounds Association Will Carry the Frick Offer to the Mayor". The New York Times. June 9, 1912. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  38. ^ "Central Park Safe, Architects Hear; Frick Offer of Lenox Library Building to be Withdrawn, Is Report". The New York Times. June 19, 1912. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  39. ^ "For New Park Weather Site". New-York Tribune. March 8, 1913. p. 16. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  40. ^ "Park Department May Quit Arsenal: Commissioner Ward Applies for Offices in the Municipal Building". New-York Tribune. February 28, 1914. p. 16. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 575192212.
  41. ^ "Old Arsenal Deserted". New-York Tribune. May 25, 1914. p. 9. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 575254941.
  42. ^ "Central Park Offices Move". The Sun. May 23, 1914. p. 5. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  43. ^ "Desert Arsenal Park Head Orders". New-York Tribune. May 20, 1914. p. 18. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 575251942.
  44. ^ American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society 1914, p. 166.
  45. ^ "Park Arsenal Fate Near Solution: Preservation Society to Take Up Subject to-night". New-York Tribune. March 23, 1914. p. 7. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 575211322.
  46. ^ "Arsenal for Art Starts Lively War: Foes of Plan to Use Park Department's Old Home Line Up for Fight". New-York Tribune. March 12, 1914. p. 7. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 575221428.
  47. ^ "Ward Wants No Park Art Palace: Against Erecting Any New Building on Site of the Arsenal". New-York Tribune. May 14, 1914. p. 7. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 575210834.
  48. ^ a b "Commissioner Cabot Ward Orders Old Central Park Arsenal to Be Torn Down". The Sun. March 1, 1915. p. 5. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  49. ^ a b "To Raze Arsenal Before June 1st; Ward Also Says No More Pare Space Will Be Given to Quasi-Public Buildings". The New York Times. March 2, 1915. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  50. ^ a b c d e "History of the Arsenal : NYC Parks". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Retrieved October 26, 2023.
  51. ^ "Scarr Scoffs at Old Theory on Rainfall". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. February 24, 1918. p. 60. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  52. ^ "New Park Invaders Ask Use of Arsenal; Museum of Safety Wants to Show Its Activities and Has Sanction of Alfred E. Smith". The New York Times. June 14, 1918. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  53. ^ "City Turns Arsenal Over to a Museum; Board of Estimate Votes to Allow Permanent Exhibition to be Established in Park". The New York Times. June 22, 1918. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  54. ^ "Safety Museum in Central Park". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 21, 1918. p. 3. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  55. ^ "Museum in Park Arsenal; Ancient Building to be Leased by City to Safety Institute". The New York Times. January 31, 1919. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  56. ^ "May Fight Use of Arsenal; Park and Playgrounds Association Contemplates an Injunction". The New York Times. April 26, 1919. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  57. ^ "Want War Museum in Park; Officers' Society Asks for Use of the Arsenal Building". The New York Times. March 10, 1919. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  58. ^ "City Gives Building for Safety Museum; Institute to Open Permanent Exhibition in the Arsenal in Central Park". The New York Times. April 25, 1919. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
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  60. ^ "Plan to Repair Arsenal; Old Central Park Structure Will House Safety Institute". The New York Times. May 14, 1919. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  61. ^ "Will Keep Up Fight to Protect Parks; Association Plans Appeal to Higher Courts Against Use of Arsenal Building". The New York Times. August 3, 1919. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  62. ^ "Arsenal Lease Approved". New-York Tribune. July 25, 1919. p. 6. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  63. ^ "Must Keep Parks for Park Purposes; Encroachments of Any Kind Forbidden by State Court of Appeals". The New York Times. June 27, 1920. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  64. ^ "$75,000 for New Arsenal; Restoration Awaits Now Only the Approval of the Aldermen". The New York Times. March 14, 1922. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  65. ^ "Park's New Trees; Craig Has Found $100,000 if Estimate Board Will Approve Spending It". The New York Times. March 3, 1922. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
  66. ^ "Would Rid Park of Weather Bureau; Citizens Voice Protest Against Permitting Observatory in Arsenal Building". The New York Times. March 5, 1922. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 27, 2023.
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  71. ^ "Would Divert Autos From Central Park; Regional Plan Proposes Ban on Fast Traffic and New Winding Drives to Restore Quiet". The New York Times. September 22, 1931. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
  72. ^ "Planners Seek To Curb Traffic In Central Park: Regional Unit Would Widen 5th Avenue by Relocating Footpaths Inside Wall". New York Herald Tribune. September 22, 1931. p. 23. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1114137627.
  73. ^ "Herrick Vetoes Any Tearing Up Of Central Park: Asks Abnormally Low Speed Limit on Driveways in Reply to Regional Plan Opposes Wider 5th Ave Doubts Wards Island Can Be Acquired for Recreation". New York Herald Tribune. September 27, 1931. p. 24. ISSN 1941-0646. ProQuest 1114227859.
  74. ^ "Low Speed in Park Favored by Herrick; Commissioner Backs Proposal of Regional Plan That Autos Go "Abnormally" Slow". The New York Times. September 27, 1931. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
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  76. ^ "Picture-book' Zoo Being Built in Park; Nine Structures to Surround Shaded Square With a Seal Tank and Outdoor Cages". The New York Times. March 9, 1934. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 28, 2023.
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Sources

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arsenal (Central Park).
  • American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society (1914). "Central Park, New York". 19th Annual Report. New York (State) Legislature. Legislative document. J.B. Lyon.

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